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Farmers' Protests: An Opportune Moment to Review the Development Model of Land Grabbing -Vasundhara Jairath

-TheWire.in

Engaging with the agrarian question must necessarily mean questioning the development model that is hungry for land but spits out the people that live on it.

Over the last few weeks, images of farmers from Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh engaged in pitched battles against the police, and by extension the state, have caught the nation’s attention as it forced the government into unconditional talks with a broad coalition of farmers’ organisations.

The opposition to the three new farm laws introduced in September this year has sparked outrage among farming communities, commercial farmers in particular. This is because the three new laws together undermine the system that had put in place certain protections to farmers from the volatility of global market prices. Opening the doors to the corporatisation of agriculture, the new laws sound the death knell for farmers in what is already a neglected and deteriorating sector of the economy.

Further, the agrarian sector is shaped not merely by agricultural policies alone, but equally so by land-related policies. Taking a closer look at the latter becomes imperative in order to engage with the agrarian question, and this implies an examination of how India’s development model shapes the health of the agrarian sector.

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