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Amending Few Clauses Not Sufficient, Repeal Farm Acts: Senior Economists to Agri Minister

-TheWire.in

The economists, who have engaged with issues of agricultural policy, said that the Centre's reforms were based on "wrong assumptions" about why farmers were unable to get remunerative prices.

New Delhi: A group of senior economists have released an open letter to the Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar calling for the repeal of the three contentious farm bills “which are not in the best interests of the small and marginal farmers of the country”.

The signatories, including professor D. Narasimha Reddy formerly with the National Institute of Rural Development, said that while changes were needed in the agricultural marketing system, the “reforms brought by these Acts do not serve that purpose”.

The economists, who have long engaged with issues of agricultural policy, said that the Centre’s reforms were based on “wrong assumptions” about why farmers were unable to get remunerative prices, about farmers being unable to sell wherever they liked under the previously existing laws and about regulated markets not being in the farmers’ interests.

The economists further outlined five crucial reasons why the three Acts were “fundamentally harmful in their implications for the small farmers of India”.

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