1. 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

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