Put the farm laws on hold, uphold farmers’ rights
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December 23, 2020 00:28 IST
The small and marginal farm sector, especially, faces a threat and the government needs to ensure wide consultations
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The small and marginal farm sector, especially, faces a threat and the government needs to ensure wide consultations
The Supreme Court’s recent suggestion to form a joint panel to look into the demands of the agitating farmers, has given a breather to the government, although such an offer, made officially at the outset, was rejected by farmer groups as a “dilly-dallying tactic”.
Farmers’ representatives see a moral victory in the Supreme Court’s observations, in that the top court did not outright reject their demands or the right to protest.
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The research center CREA is testing new varieties to obtain red pulp mandarins
A research program for obtaining new varieties of mandarins with red pulp and without seeds, meeting the tastes of the consumer, has been launched by CREA. With its Center for Olive, Fruit and Citrus Growing, it has already created five unique mandarins, Tacle, Mandared, Early Sicily, Sun Red and Red Sunset. This research center alone has developed more than a dozen red-fleshed oranges grown in Italy on about 40 thousand hectares. Over the past 15-20 years, the international interest in red-fleshed citrus fruits has increased because of their health benefits, said to ANSA the CREA researcher Marco Caruso. In China, for instance, the number of hectares cultivated with blood orange has increased from 7 thousand to 30 thousand in 12 years, by using exclusively varieties of Italian origin.
Appealing to the Farmers Union leaders to continue dialogue
and to find an amicable solution, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh
Tomar along with Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal outlined the various
suggestions that have been given to farmers in a proposal to address their
concerns about the Farm Acts.
They were speaking to media at a Press Conference in New
Delhi on Thursday.
The Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation)
Act 2020 and Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance
and Farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities Amendment Act 2020 are
the biggest agricultural reforms in the country so far. The reforms will