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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Farm bills: India’s fields are on fire -Devinder Sharma

Farm bills: India’s fields are on fire -Devinder Sharma

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published Published on Oct 5, 2020   modified Modified on Oct 6, 2020

-The Telegraph

The tearing hurry with which agriculture market reforms have been pushed through, without even consulting farmers, has resulted in huge farm protests in Punjab and Haryana

At a time when I see euphoria among mainstream economists over the new set of agricultural reforms, media reports say that the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices has observed that only 12 per cent of India’s paddy cultivators were able to sell their produce at the guaranteed minimum support price during the 2018-19 kharif marketing season. If the remaining 88 per cent farmers were also able to sell paddy at the MSP, the rural economy would have witnessed an upswing.

The uneven picture of paddy procurement is not very different from that of wheat procurement in the rabi marketing season where the bulk of procurement operations is confined to Punjab, Haryana and now Madhya Pradesh. This is primarily because the network of regulated markets has remained confined to the traditional Green Revolution belt of the northwestern region. Against the requirement of 42,000 regulated mandis within a five-kilometre radius, there exists close to 7,000 mandis only under the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) Act. Nor has MSP price delivery been expanded to cover more regions and more crops.

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The Telegraph, 10 October, 2020, https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/farm-bills-indias-fields-are-on-fire/cid/1793914?fbclid=IwAR0rRP4JoYeuQ4s15Id8D04AxbljIP-iy799sryUDzGRJq3Hjq1QyKxQDNg


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