❖ A parliamentary committee has recommended implementing a legal guarantee on Minimum Support Price.

❖ The committee, chaired by former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi.

❖ It has recommended subsidies for farmers to keep non-milching animals so that they can manage the problem of stray cattle.

❖ The panel asked the Centre to increase the allocation for insuring livestock.

❖ The panel said there is also need to prevent further growth of stray cattle from the already existing livestock population of 193.46 million cattle and 109.85 million buffaloes.

❖ The committee has recommended that farmers be compensated for managing and disposing of crop residue, or parali, to prevent them from burning it.

❖ The committee has proposed increasing monetary support under the PM-KISAN Samman Nidhi scheme from Rs 6,000 per annum to Rs 12,000 per annum.

❖ It also asked to introduce a scheme to waive off the debts of farmers and the farm labourers to combat the rise in farmer distress and suicides over debt repayment

❖ The committee suggested implementing compulsory universal crop insurance for smallholder farmers with landholdings of up to 2 acres.