Agriculture reform ordinances ‘more about agri-businesses than farmers’: Agri activists
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Agriculture reform ordinances ‘more about agri-businesses than farmers’: Agri activists
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New Delhi, September 12Agriculture activists have called the three agriculture reform ordinances which the government is planning to replace with Bills in the upcoming Parliament Session as “more about agri-businesses than farmers”.It appears that insufficient analysis is happening from farmers’ perspective right now, and even here, the debate is getting limited to only one or two states which have had a well-developed mandi system over the decades. From farmers’ vantage, it appears that there is little to cheer about and there are many things of concern, says Kavita Kuruganti of Alliance of Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture.According to a statement, the government has dubbed the ordinances as “historic developments” and the “1991 moment” for Indian agriculture but “these ordinances are not about farmers but about agri-businesses”.The other points highlighted by activists include
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The Tribune
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2020-09-12