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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bihar scrapped APMC Act, mandi system 14 years ago; here’s what it did to farmers -CK Manoj

Bihar scrapped APMC Act, mandi system 14 years ago; here’s what it did to farmers -CK Manoj

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published Published on Dec 7, 2020   modified Modified on Dec 7, 2020

-Down to Earth

Why are farmers protesting the government’s ’reforms’, ask many. A look at how Bihar’s farmers have fared may explain

The recent controversy about India’s newly minted farm laws have brought back into focus what Nitish Kumar did a decade-and-a-half ago: Shutting down the mandi (wholesale markets for agricultural produce) system in 2006.

The much-touted ‘reform’ has impacted the state’s farmers, and not in a good way. Farmers have had to sell their produce to private procurers at throwaway prices.

Kumar’s government repealed the Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act in Bihar months after assuming chief ministership (in 2005). For 14 years now, experts said, farmers have not had a favourable market for their produce.

Yet, their anger didn’t spill out on the streets. The same experts ascribe that to a lack of awareness and little unity. About 97 per cent of the state’s agricultural community comprise either marginal or small farmers — those who are hardly left with a surplus to sell.

Even after the Narendra Modi government at the Centre brought in three controversial laws and amended the Essential Commodities Act, protests have been far low key in the state compared to several other parts.

Economist DM Diwakar said:

“The Modi government says the new farm bills won’t adversely impact the farming community. Given the logic, the financial condition of 94 per cent of farmers in Bihar — who didn’t go to mandis or were not covered under minimum support price (MSP) — should have improved in the past 14 years. But their condition has deteriorated.”

Paddy has sold for Rs 900-1,000 a quintal in Bihar, almost half the Rs 1,868 fixed by the Centre as MSP, alleged the former director of Patna-based AN Sinha Institute of Social Studies. Nearly half the farmers can’t even recover their investments, he added.

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Down to Earth, 7 December, 2020, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/agriculture/bihar-scrapped-apmc-act-mandi-system-14-years-ago-here-s-what-it-did-to-farmers-74534?fbclid=IwAR2NTE59FfZqe4KFAd2WlB4HZIfmFCwwIqP4-6EbiHarXRhqwTs6rcVAKrk


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