Ground Report: Punjab’s failed attempt with contract farming reason behind reluctance to accept farm laws?
Two decades before Modi government passed the new farm law to open up the agriculture market for private players, Punjab experimented with contract farming. Farmers who bucked the trend are now reaping the benefits of contract farming but it failed to catch the imagination of the majority.
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It's harvest time for potato farmer Harpinder Singh.
Two decades before Modi government passed the new farm law to open up the agriculture market for private players, Punjab experimented with contract farming. Farmers who bucked the trend are now reaping the benefits of contract farming but it failed to catch the imagination of the majority, a reason why farmer unions today are vehemently opposed to the idea.