Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 150
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 151
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
LATEST NEWS UPDATES | By amending Model Mandi Act, MP has pushed its agricultural sector into throes of uncertainty -Sunit Arora

By amending Model Mandi Act, MP has pushed its agricultural sector into throes of uncertainty -Sunit Arora

Share this article Share this article
published Published on Dec 21, 2020   modified Modified on Dec 23, 2020

-The Indian Express

The state has posted high growth rates in the agricultural sector in recent years, but the growth has been skewed in favour of the state's irrigated parts and a small number of crops.

Madhya Pradesh is primarily an agricultural state. One third of its gross state domestic product comes from this sector, half of the state’s area is used for cultivation, and 70 per cent of the total workers and 85 per cent of the rural workers are dependent on agriculture for livelihood (“Madhya Pradesh Agriculture Economic Survey” 2016). The state has posted high growth rates in the agricultural sector in recent years, but the growth has been skewed in favour of the state’s irrigated parts and a small number of crops. High agricultural growth has, thus, been accompanied by an increase in the number of farmer suicides and regular incidents of dumping of unsold produce on the highways by farmers due to sharp declines in prices. Farmer agitations, taking place at frequent intervals in the state, have, however, failed to attract national attention, barring the 2017 Mandsaur incident in which five protesting farmers died.

The Shivraj Singh Chouhan led BJP government in the state has put all its weight behind the new agricultural laws, giving verbal assurances to the farmers that the reforms will give them more freedom, help in augmenting their incomes and act as a cushion against adverse price fluctuations. These claims merit a close scrutiny.

The first claim is that the reforms will not affect the functioning of the mandis. Now, the Krishi Upaj Mandi Act, 1972, which governed the state’s 259 mandis, was recently amended, and the Model Mandi Act passed in May 2020 allowed traders to make purchases outside the mandis without any levy. Even though the state government has repeatedly tried to assure farmers that mandis will not be affected by the new farm laws, in the first six months of the amendments, there has been a significant decline in their business. Moreover, a reduction in mandi cess on the traders from 1.7 per cent to 0.5 per cent in October this year has weakened the revenue-generating capacity of the mandis.

Please click here to read more.


The Indian Express, 21 December, 2020, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/madhya-pradesh-farmers-mandi-act-7113824/?fbclid=IwAR0PdlHrDaROzrvi97tvJkVGPNRcPCUTmAKYVMfY154ftuSep3yfvB_jB64


Related Articles

 

Write Comments

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

Video Archives

Archives

share on Facebook
Twitter
RSS
Feedback
Read Later

Contact Form

Please enter security code
      Close