It is not just about minimum support prices but also about the survival of the entire system of public procurement and distribution of food grains which, despite its drawbacks, continues to provide a modicum of food security to vast numbers of our population. Threat from Northern industrial countries : Northern industrial countries, namely the US, Canada, EU cannot produce the tropical and subtropical crops in high demand because of climatic reason while they have mountains of surplus grain and dairy product s , and they require export markets for these. For over two decades, they have put relentless pressure on developing countries to give up their own public procurement systems , insisting that they should buy their food grains from advanced countries, while d iverting their food crop producing land to c ontract farming of export crops that these industrial countries want but cannot produce. Dozens of developing countries including Philippines(mid 1990s) an...
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