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The lockdown has got the government talking about agri ‘reforms’ again, but the exploitation of India’s weakest farmers continues unchecked.
It is a cruel irony that in the sixth week of the nationwide lockdown, the government is talking up omnibus agriculture “reforms” as if they can mitigate the growing distress in rural India. Reforms, no doubt, implies stricter compliance with online registration and payment rules, more focus on market-based pricing, and other such changes, which small and marginal farmers have always struggled to comply with.
Instead of “reform”, the question before the government should be how farmers are expected to cope with a lockdown if they do not live near a large mandi or town. This year, the Centre has set a countrywide procurement target of 4.07 million tonnes for just the wheat crop. This target is far from being met in any of the big wheat-producing states. But the question is not just of wheat. The crisis of procurement, harvesting and taking-to-market applies to all cereals and vegetables.
