Samyukt Kisan Morcha warns against organic farming, asks Center to ensure adequate fertilizers

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Warning that ‘natural farming’ could reduce crop production by 30%, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella organization of over 500 farm outfits, here on Friday urged the union government to ensure adequate supply of fertilizers during this Kharif season. SKM has also decided to hold nationwide protests against price hikes in fertilisers, diesel and black marketing. Addressing reporters, SKM leaders said their National Council would meet on June 17 and an All-India Convention would be held on July 28 in New Delhi to prepare for a “long road of mass struggle” to achieve crucial demands, including the statutory minimum support price (MSP).

SKM officials have asked farmers’ unions, farmers’ organizations and agricultural workers to burn copies of the government’s recent MSP regulation for kharif crops in every village. Alleging that the Narendra Modi government is not protecting the needs of farmers in terms of urea and diammonium phosphate, SKM said that while the Union government was fully aware of the demand for fertilizers, it deliberately faltered in foreign policy by failing to ensure supply of cheap oil, natural gas and LPG to ensure supply of diesel and fertilizers to farmers. “It shamelessly raises fuel prices, burdens farmers and threatens food security,” SKM leaders said.

In natural farming, SKM will reduce crop production by at least 30%. “The Agriculture Minister has openly declared fertilizer shortages to encourage black market traders. The government has shown its incompetence and is unrepentant about its political folly of stopping imports from Iran and Russia at the behest of Donald Trump and US imperialism,” the leaders said.

They claimed that Modi’s government had given in to corporate lobbies, US imperialism and global agrochemical cartels, forcing 48 farmers to commit suicide every day. “This is not government. This is systematic genocide dressed up in trade deals, tax evasion and artificial scarcity,” they said.

Commenting on the MSP, they said that between 2016 and 2025, farmers of 20 major crops lost ₹27 lakh crore – transferred to millers, exporters and middlemen. “For Kharif 2025-26 alone, losses from just four crops (paddy, cotton, soya, maize) amounted to ₹ 2.64 crore. And even these paper MSPs are lies: in October 2025, soya sold 21% below MSP, moong 24%, maize 26% and sudi paddy 5%, groundnut 5% 1.8% below 83% of farmers never get MSP,” they said.

Published – 22 May 2026 21:56 IST