Decluttering the new farm laws (2) December 29, 2020, 11:11 PM IST
The writer is Director General, Federation of Seed Industry of India
The protests we are witnessing against the farm reforms are due to many reasons like lack of consensus building efforts by the government before bringing the laws, misinformation campaign being carried out by vested interests which is misleading the farmers, politicization of issue and resistance to change and reluctance of farmers, middlemen and state governments to move from their comfort zones. Many states have made tremendous progress with modification of their APMC laws in the last five years and they should find the new reforms as a logical extension of what they have been trying to do.
Decluttering the new farm laws (1) December 28, 2020, 11:06 PM IST
The writer is Director General, Federation of Seed Industry of India
The agricultural marketing reforms brought about by the government through two new laws and an amendment to the existing Essential Commodities Act are in the right direction. Farmer has been shackled through mandated selling of his produce through the APMC mandis which made his price discovery poor and his profits low. The current reforms give them freedom.
The protests we are witnessing are due to many reasons like lack of consensus building efforts by the government before bringing the laws, misinformation campaign being carried out by vested interests which is misleading the farmers, politicization of issue and resistance to change and reluctance of farmers, middlemen and state governments to move from their comfort zones. Many states have made tremendous progress with modification of their APMC laws i