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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Ordinances on agriculture show unwise haste, may do harm along with good -Ajay Vir Jakhar

Ordinances on agriculture show unwise haste, may do harm along with good -Ajay Vir Jakhar

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published Published on Jun 18, 2020   modified Modified on Jun 18, 2020

-The Indian Express

Rather than coax the states financially to correct the markets, an unregulated marketplace has been created where 15 crore farmers will be exposed to the skulduggery of traders. Imagine the mayhem in stock markets if ROC and SEBI were similarly made redundant.

Just as all ordinances aren’t reforms, all reforms aren’t the “1991 moment” for agriculture. The ordinances announced recently to facilitate trade in agricultural produce were historically resisted by the bureaucracy and the states. Pent up frustration at repeatedly failing to change the status quo of depressed farmer livelihoods, and the pressure of the PMO seeking instant delivery, has the establishment introducing ordinances rather than bills.

Bills would require to be placed in the public domain for comments, consultations would be held with farmers, and states whose powers and revenues were being curtailed would get a hearing. In the hurry to impose ordinances, however, the baby has been thrown out with the bath water, specifically with ‘Farming Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion & Facilitation) Ordinance 2020.’

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The Indian Express, 18 June, 2020, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/unpacking-the-reform-agriculture-trade-ordinances-farmers-6463963/


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