Three Farm Acts 2020 – the reforms that farmers do not want !!
(This article was first published in the Agriculture World, October 2020 issue) Three Farm Acts 2020 – the reforms that farmers do not want !! Government claims this is Historic & Revolutionary . Farmers believe this will harm them, instead demands MSP as a statutory right to ensure incomes. Finally the farm sector has also been dealt with what is now Narendra Modi governments signature “Surgical Strike”, as one can call this . Three Bills that are intended to reform the agri marketing sector is finally law. The nation saw an unjustifiable unprecedented urgency with which the Bills were first introduced as Ordinances on June 5 th 2020, packaged as response to the crisis created by Covid19 and to usher in Atma Nirbhar Bharat. The way the Ordinances, which did not seem to behold any matter of urgent nature, itself were introduced, sowed the seeds of mistrust and skepticism, eventually forcing farmers to the streets. In September, when the Bills were placed in the Parliament, t...