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Kudos for the candid editorial on price signals and farmers decision (Business Line, January 2). Three more issues need to be written about repeatedly in this context. The conflict of interest between the Food and Agriculture Ministries and the unhealthy competitive politics of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries constitute the first set.

The second debilitating effect comes from the troika of the National Food Security Mission, National Agricultural Development Plan and the Agricultural Technology Management Agency, implemented since rabi 2007.

The structural inefficiencies impacting agricultural production have, in fact, been reinforced by the politicking in the MSP announcement. The third set is a series of creation of apex regulatory bodies since the past few years that has driven the proverbial last nail in the coffin of effective decentralisation through the panchayati raj institutions.

The cry for agricultural fundamentalism must indeed be raised, such that the inclusive and faster growth theme song of the Eleventh Plan is heard by the mandarins in Delhi.

J. George Delhi

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