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Farm laws repeal hailed but seen as no solution to the ills that have dogged the agri sector -E Kumar Sharma

-Financial Express

Sukhpal Singh, professor and former chairperson, Centre for Management in Agriculture at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad underlined the point that the problems of the agriculture sector cannot be resolved by the repeal of the laws per se.

The Friday morning announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi of his government’s decision to begin the process to repeal the three contentious farm laws have been generally hailed though some have seen it as a pyrrhic victory having lost several farmer lives.

Describing it as a good step by the Prime Minister and one that was much need, Sukhpal Singh, professor and former chairperson, Centre for Management in Agriculture at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, felt the three laws were flawed in their design to begin with besides the process (of little consultation that had happened) before they were enacted. He however, underlined the point that the problems of the agriculture sector cannot be resolved by the repeal of the laws per se because, as he says, “most would agree that we need to do much more in terms of policy and regulation.”

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