Farmers Movement Archive

New farm bills will end exploitation of farmers: UP CM Yogi Adityanath

LUCKNOW: UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday hailed the farmers Bills as part of the Centre’s strategy to implement PM Narendra Modi’s idea of doubling income of farmers by 2022. Yogi said that the Bills would not only guarantee minimum support price (MSP) but also allow the farmers to get a share in the profit dividends. “MSP will not be affected. It will be implemented along with other provisions of the Bill.” Yogi said. The CM said that farmers have been demanding agriculture reformist provisions. Even the MS Swaminathan committee report (of 2004) has been suggesting such reforms, he said. “Progressive farmers have been demanding these reforms for decades. The previous government used to make promises but could never take bold decisions in favour of the farmers,” he said, while thanking PM Modi and Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar for bringing in farm Bills in the Parliament. The CM said that the clause of doing away with taxes being imposed whether a farmer takes his farm produce to the mandi or not would bring in much needed happiness in the lives of farmers. “Farmers were earlier subjected to exploitation. There was no healthy competition. The Bills remove all such anomalies,” he said. Yogi said that the Bill frees farm produce from any kind of tax and provides freedom to farmers to sell their produce anywhere in the country. “The one nation, one market concept is being applied in agriculture as well,” the CM said, crediting the BJP government at the Centre of bringing in paradigm changes in the lives of farmers. “Be it farm insurance scheme, PM irrigation scheme envisaging taking water to every agricultural field, provisioning solar panels to energise agriculture, the Rs 1 lakh-crore package to boost agriculture or the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi provisioning Rs 6,000 annual grant to farmers...all these were welcome steps,” Yogi said.

The Times of India

2020-09-25

Lucknow