The three Indian farm laws have ignited a rather animated debate in the last few months. Virtually every agri-expert in the country agrees that the farm laws are steps in the right direction.
Most policymakers in the last two decades have been advocating these laws and extensive consultations under various governments have variously advocated the same farm laws that have now been legislated under the current government.
One might ask why the protests then?
At the crux of the issue is the big farmers versus the small farmers debate.
According the 1971 agricultural census in India, the proportion of farmers with micro land holdings less than 1 hectare was 51%. In the last census done in 2011, this number increased to 68%.
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