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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...

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Why Farmers are opposing ‘pro-Farmer’ reforms -Roshan Kishore

-Hindustan Times While the government claims that these reforms will help Farmers in getting a better price for their products, Farmers’ groups have been agitating against these changes. In May this year, the government announced important reforms in agricultural markets. These included deregulation of farm foods from the Essential Commodities Act (ECA). Farmers were also allowed to sell their produce outside government-regulated markets, or Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs). Another set of...

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Avik Saha, co-founder of the Swaraj Abhiyan, interviewed by TheWire.in

-TheWire.in In conversation with Avik Saha, co-founder of the Swaraj Abhiyan. New Delhi: As the Lok Sabha passed three controversial agricultural legislations, the country witnessed an outpouring of anger by the opposition parties, who alleged these bills are “anti-Farmer”. Farmers and traders have been vehemently opposing the new changes brought in by the Central government, alleging the government wants to discontinue the minimum support price (MSP) regime in the name of reforms. Minister of...

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Why MSP scare: Wheat Farmers availing it double in 5 years, paddy up 70 per cent -Harikishan Sharma

-The Indian Express The data was shared with Rajya Sabha Friday by Raosaheb Patil Danve, Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, who gave a written reply to an unstarred question. The number of wheat Farmers who availed the minimum support price (MSP) has doubled in the last five years, while the number of such paddy Farmers has increased by 70 per cent during the same period, according to...

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Kharif area up, but rains hit standing crops in 15 states

-The Hindu Business Line Crops on over 21 lakh hectares damaged, Agri Min tells Parliament Bengaluru: Timely and quick spread of monsoon this year did help boost the kharif acreage, but the heavy spell of rains witnessed across several parts of the country over recent weeks are seen spoiling the party for several Farmers this cropping season. “There have been extreme weather events in the form of heavy rains in some parts of...

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