The yield is good, if not bumper, but Salcete’s countryside is reverberating with cries of farmers, but for a different reason to review the over decade old support price for paddy.
Farmers say a hike in support price will cover the labour cost and help bring more fallow land under cultivation. Agriculture department, on the other hand, say the support price for paddy is based on the central government's minimum support price policy, an argument that has not found favour with the farmers, who are clear in saying Goa should be considered on a different footing given the high labour cost that makes agriculture unviable.
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