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Bibek Debroy: Why we should move away from APMCs
In other areas of economic policy-making, we are moving away from heavy-handed State intervention characterising the period from second-half of the 1960s to 1970s. Why not agriculture? Bibek Debroy December 18, 2020 / 10:33 AM IST
Amritsar: A farmer ploughs his field with a tractor before planting paddy saplings in Amritsar, Thursday, June 13, 2019. Punjab government permitted paddy growers to transplant their crop from June 13 instead of the earlier date of June 20, following requests by various farmers organisations. (PTI Photo)(PTI6 13 2019 000083B)
With limited word length of a column, let me focus on one of the three farm laws the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020.
Rebooting Economy 52: The unfinished agenda of land reforms nobody talks about
Landless, marginal, and small farmers together constitute 93.7% of the total agricultural workforce in India. Can sustainable agricultural growth and farmers well-being be achieved without land reforms?
Prasanna Mohanty | December 14, 2020 | Updated 14:02 IST
It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that India needs land reform urgently to ensure people s well-being and sustainable economic growth
While farmers protest has occupied the political centre stage, India has forgotten the other part of the agricultural workforce: landless agriculture workers who also double-up as tenant farmers and sharecroppers and are officially recognised as poorest of the poor .