COMMUNICATIVE

ENGLISH
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M O H ANP OL AMRED DY8 00 @GMA IL. COM

THE FARM • On September 27,2020 president of
India,Mr.Ram Nath Kovond gave his assent to
BILL 2020 three farm reform bills.
• They are:
• 1)The Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce
(Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020
• 2- Farmers (Empowerment and Protection)
Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm
Services Act, 2020
• 3- Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act,
2020
WHAT’S THE • Our honorable prime minister Shri Narendra
Modi ji has stated these three acts by “A
REACTION Watershed Moment In The History Of Indian
Agriculture”.
• But what’s the strange thing here is ,the
farmers for whose betterment these acts
have been made are now on the streets
protesting against these acts.
• Farmers organization’s like Bharatiya Kisan
Union(BKU) and All India Kisan Sangharsh
Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) have been
protesting against these acts in the roads of
Delhi.
 • 1) The Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and
Facilitation) Act, 2020
WHAT’S • This act provides the permission for farmers to sell their farm
produces outside the Agricultural Produce Market Committee
THERE IN s(APMC’s).
Any license holder trader can buy the produce from farmers at
THIS ACTS
•
mutually agreed prices.
• This trade of farm produces will be free of Mandi i.e market
taxes imposed by state governments.
• 2- Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price
Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020
• This act allows the farmers to do contract farming and market
their produces freely.
• 3- Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020
• This act is an amendment to the already existing Essential
Commodities Act.
• This law now frees the items such as food grains,pulses, edible
oils and onion for trade except is extraordinary or read criso
situations.
GOVERNMENT’S
TAKE ON THIS
ACTS • Central government has said that these new
acts will help to strengthen the basic farm
sector infrastructure through the greater
private investments.
• Government is also saying that these three
acts will open up the new opportunities for
the farmers so that they can earn more
income from their farm produce.
 On the other hand, Farmers have called the new
WHY
•
Farm Laws 2020 as 'corporate-friendly' and 'anti-

FARMERS
farmer’.
• They are saying that these new acts will make
WERE them vulnerable to the private traders.

PROTESTING • Also, Minimum Support Price(MSP) has emerged

as the main sticking point in the farmer’s protest.
• Protesting farmers says that new laws would
make the MSP system irrelevant and so they
would not have any assured income from their
farming.
• They are now demanding the Union government
to either withdraw those acts or guarantee them
the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for their crops
by a new law.