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India's Onion Export Ban Goes Against the Spirit of Recent Agricultural Reform -Siraj Hussain and Jugal Mohapatra

-TheWire.in

The ban on onion exports has proven that farmers, mostly small and marginal, will continue to hold the burden of reining food inflation.

On June 5, 2020, just after the COVID-19-induced all-India lockdown was being eased, the government promulgated The Essential Commodities (Amendment Ordinance, 2020).

This move was lauded by India Inc as the move apparently signalled that the Indian government had finally decided to ease the draconian provisions of the EC Act.

It meant that the Central government would be able to regulate the supply of certain food items only under extraordinary circumstances like war, famine, extraordinary price rise, or a grave natural calamity. Under normal conditions, the Centre and state governments would have to bind themselves to a policy of non-interference.

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