The Finance minister said that the price controls are going to be removed. We still await the implementation.
Pre-planting prices are a production tool to influence farmers' decisions. But the government has been dithering on this. So farmers have tended to shift to uncontrolled commodities such as horticulture.
We do not want anything that would in itself be a price control. The way the rate has been going up the past month has been subject to questions. It has been going up by 1 % irrespective of supply and demand and that creates problems and says there is manipulation somewhere.