The Fair and Remunerative prices Act of the Central Government setting the Sugarcane MSP at Rs. 130 per quintal received wrath from the farmers of the North whereas the farmers of Maharashtra said nothing.
As there are co-operative sugar mills in Maharashtra, the farmers have lower input costs such as fertilizer, pesticides, etc as the co-operatives have their own sales counters for the same.
In the north there are very few functional co-operative mills so the input costs run high. This led to lower margins at the rates declared by Government for the northerners and stable, decent margins for Maharashtra farmers. So the north farmers did a collective action to protest against the Act.
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This can be considered as the case of collective waste because the collective action done by the farmers of the North India is not going to solve the problem permanently.
Instead of co-operating for the protest against the govt. they should have formed long term co-operation and tried to replicate the model followed in the Maharashtra.
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