Centre laps up Swaminathan endorsement of PM Modi's farm policies

The piece came days ahead of a big agitation planned by a bunch of farmer groups from August 9

After criticism for its handling of agrarian issues, the government found some support from an article written a few days earlier by eminent agricultural scientist M S Swaminathan, considered one of the fathers of the country’s earlier Green Revolution.

Swaminathan praised the Narendra Modi government’s handling of the country’s agriculture. He also said it had implemented several of the suggestions made by him as chairman of the earlier National Commission on Farmers (NCF, constituted in 2004 by the earlier government), while the former government only gave lip service.

“The recent announcement of a remunerative price based essentially on the recommendation