- LAW NO 1. FREE TO SELL ANYWHERE IN INDIA:- Farmer’s Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act: allows farmers to:
- Sell Outside the physical premises of Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) market yards,
- Sell directly to buyers across state borders without restrictions,
- Promoted barrier-free inter-state and intra-state trade of agricultural produce.
It aims to provide farmers with more options and potentially better prices by opening up the market beyond traditional APMCs.
(We at PlugInCaroo feel that it was the correct thing to do and there should be no law that forces the farmers to sell to a single entity. Such a law must not exist in an Independent India.
Existing Farm Laws mandate that it is illegal for farmers to sell anywhere or anyone outside the APMC Mandis.
Why only farmers?.. Nobody… Nobody should be forced in Independent India to sell to ANY single entity… whether Govt or Private.
The exiting law prevents farmers from selling directly to the customers. Farmers in India as per law can sell ONLY to APMC (Govt appointed Agents … (read middle men)… at Mandis). These middle men are responsible for inflating the prices of commodities.
Its convenient (but not beneficial) for the farmers because they can dump their entire produce at a single place in one go.
APMC is ONLY beneficial for the APMC Agents (middlemen) because they get huge quantities of produce at very cheap rates… many times (when weather is good and produce is more) at Rupee 1 per Kg.
Many a times the farmers protest such low prices by not selling to the APMC and instead throwing the produce on the roads under the trucks so as to destroy them than sell it.
The existing draconian laws were started by
British to force Indian Farmers to sell cotton only to British and not to any other local entity. Thus the British got cotton almost for free and could choose the lowest price to pay… low enough so that the farmer could survive but remained like a bonded slave to them… the farmer had no other option).
The French Revolution is indirectly connected to Indian Cotton purchased by British APMC… because had the Indian farmers not grown cotton… British would never have got so much raw material from ANY OTHER COUNTRY in the world… and the British would not have been able to manufacture so much cloth and dump it on their neighbor France.
Thus the French Weavers would not not have lost their jobs and the French Revolution would NEVER have happened.
- LAW NO 2. CONTRACT FARMING :-The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act: an act of the Indian Government that creates a national framework for contract farming through an agreement between a farmer and a buyer before the production or rearing of any farm produces. opening up the market beyond traditional APMCs.
(We feel that more clarity of this law is required because as of now there are contract farming or farming on lease happening. So how this Law is different from existing contract needs more clarity).
- ALLOW HOARDING :- The Ordinance provides that the central government may regulate the supply of certain food items (including cereals, pulses, potato, onions, edible oilseeds, and oils) ONLY under extraordinary circumstances (like: (i) war, (ii) famine, (iii) extraordinary price rise and (iv) natural calamity of grave nature).
The 3rd Law strangely encouraged hoarding.
This law was not in favor of the farmer and more in favor of Middle Men & Industrialists. The other 2 laws were in favor of the farmers.
It was BASICALLY BECAUSE of the 3rd law that the entire Bill got protested against and was revoked.
If Modi had passed the 1st and 2nd law it would have been truly liberating to the farmer. (2nd law needing more clarity).
These 3 laws were imposed on June 2020 by had to be revoked in Nov 2021 as they were under severe protest by Punjab and Haryana farmers.
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