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Agriculture reforms only for traders and corporates, not farmers, say experts -Vibha Sharma

-The Tribune

The Government on Wednesday announced three "major agriculture reforms" for farmers, including an Ordinance to promote “barrier-free inter-state and intra-state trade outside APMC market” and amendment to the Essential Commodities Act., removing commodities like cereals, pulses oilseeds edible oils onion and potatoes from list of essential commodities.

Briefing about the three reforms after the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the decisions, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar called it a “historic day" in fact a day of "freedom for farmers”.

However, according to leading agriculture experts and activitists, the “reforms were for traders and not farmers".

While Tomar said states are on board in the Ordinance, they believe many would consider it as “infringement of their power under the federal structure”.

Questions are also being raised on the move to impose ECA under extraordinary circumstances. Who will decide what the extraordinary circumstances are, experts said.

“Removing stock limits do not benefit farmers. They are not touching APMC, which is a good step. However, the real reform would be to expand the network of APMC ‘mandis’ in the country and assure that MSP becomes a legal obligation,” said agricultural policy analyst Devinder Sharma.

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