Key Points:
- The Union Agriculture Minister, Narendra Singh Tomar said that the Government is ready to sit and talk with the farmers to end the deadlock over farm laws.
- Urging the farmers to go through the proposal of amendments, he said that the center is planning to set up a date for discussion.
- “The Government is ready for Discussion,” Tomar stated.
- The government in September deregulated farm markets, giving more space to private traders and to outgrowth investments in the farm sector that is dependent on subsidies.
On Thursday, the Union Agriculture Minister, Narendra Singh Tomar said that the Government is ready to sit and talk with the farmers to end the deadlock over farm laws. While addressing the press conference, Tomar also said that the new Farm Laws passed by the Parliament in the month of September will benefit the farmers. Urging the farmers to go through the proposal of amendments, he said that the center is planning to set up a date for discussion.
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“The Government is ready for Discussion,” Tomar stated. The Agriculture Minister also said that the Government wanted to free the farmers of the shackles of mandi so that they could sell their produce anywhere, to anyone, at their own price, outside the view of mandi. “The farms laws were passed only after the discussion from all political parties and then passed by the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha,” said the Minister.
“Any law is never entirely bad or good. Therefore, we have come out with amendments on provisions which during discussions the farmers had apprehensions about,” Tomar said. “The Government has no ego. It was, is and will always be open to dialogue,” he added.
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The government in September deregulated farm markets, giving more space to private traders, to spur investments in a farm sector dependent on subsidies. Thousands of farmers are protesting the changes, saying they will be swallowed up by big corporations.
The new laws allow businesses to freely trade farm produce outside the so-called government-controlled “mandi system”, permit private traders to stockpile large quantities of essential commodities for future sales and lay down new contract-farming rules. The government in September deregulated farm markets, giving more space to private traders and to outgrowth investments in the farm sector that is dependent on subsidies.
“It is being projected that the land of farmers will be occupied by industrialists. Contract farming has been going on for long in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana, Punjab, Karnataka but there has never been such experience,” Tomar concluded.