New Delhi, January 31: The price situation will ease in the coming days with good prospects of rabi crop coupled with growing availability of sugar and pulses from abroad, says Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, who is pained over the attacks on him over the issue.
A veteran of many a political crisis and Minister in charge of Agriculture, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs for the last over five years, he, however, has a word of caution that being an agriculture dependent economy, farmers should get “proper” prices.
Seeking to take the wind out of the opposition attack over high prices of essential commodities, he said in an interview to PTI that several non-Congress governments have written to the Centre for enhancement of the Minimum Support Price fixed for paddy, an important ingredient that will reflect in the prices.
–PTI