Amid protests against agri laws, Plea in SC seeks setting up of panels on farmers rights
The petition sought a direction to the Centre and all the states to implement report of National Commission on Farmers (NCF) constituted under the Chairmanship of Professor M S Swaminathan.
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Farmers during the Kishan Mahapanchayat against the new Farm Laws at Shamli in Uttar Pradesh. (Representational Photo | Shekhar Yadav, EPS) By PTI
NEW DELHI: A petition was been filed before the Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking to set up statutory commissions for framers at the national and the state levels to safeguard the fundamental and legal rights of tillers and the farm community in the country.
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India: Farmers mount fresh protests in New Delhi
Bill is godsent
According to Sudhanshu Mittal, vice president of the Indian Olympic Association and a politician affiliated with the BJP, the farm bills were enacted to address low price yield for farmers, as well as issues with grain procurement, low viability of agriculture and increasing farmer suicides. For small farmers, this bill is godsent. It will enable them to get into contract farming, which gives them support for cultivation, Mittal told DW.
Some arhtiyas, such as Raju, insist that the APMCs protect farmers from exploitation as large corporations will offer a greater MSP, rendering mandis redundant in the future.
The Economic Survey s defence comes amid farmers protests at various Delhi borders. (File)
New Delhi:
The government s annual Economic Survey has said that the new farm laws herald a new era of market freedom which can go a long way in improving lives of small and marginal farmers in India.
These legislations were designed primarily for the benefit of small and marginal farmers , which constitute around 85 per cent of the total number of farmers and are the biggest sufferer of the regressive APMC-regulated market regime, the survey said.
The pre-budget document defended the farm laws in the backdrop of long-running farmers agitation at various borders of the national capital seeking repeal of these legislations expressing concern that they are pro-corporate and could weaken government regulated mandis, also called Agriculture Produce Marketing Committees (APMCs).