Topic - Indian Farmers Protest 2021.

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1- Farmer protest India
2-farmers protest reason
3-why farmers are protesting
4-kisan bill
5-Farmer’s strike

Throughout 2020 and 2021, the Indian farmers' protest is protesting against
three farm laws that were passed by the Indian parliament in September 2020. 
These acts areas are:
1. Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation)
Act: expands the scope of trade areas of farmers produce from select
areas to "any place of production, collection, and aggregation." Allows
electronic trading and e-commerce of scheduled farmers' produce.
Prohibits state governments from levying any market fee, cess, or levy
on farmers, traders, and electronic trading platforms for a trade of
farmers' produce conducted in an 'outside trade area'.
2. Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price
Assurance and Farm Services Act: creates a framework for contract
farming through an agreement between a farmer and a buyer before the
production or rearing of any farm produces. It provides for a three-level
dispute settlement mechanism: the conciliation board, Sub-Divisional
Magistrate, and Appellate Authority.'
3. Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act: allows for the center to
regulate certain food items in the course of extraordinary situations like
war or famine. Requires that imposition of any stock limit on
agricultural produce be based on price rise.
As a result, tens of thousands of farmers, farmworkers, and supporters
converged on New Delhi in response to the protests, some camping outside for
months at a time. Most of the protesters in this movement are Sikhs from
Punjab and Haryana in India, which stand to lose the most as a result of these
bills. Small farmers in these states are being proposed a framework of
agriculture radically different from what they had been used to. At the moment,
they sell their crops to the government in wholesale markets, or mandis, who
guarantee them minimum support prices. The market is controlled by
commission agents called "middlemen," who are usually paid a commission on
deals. Small farmers can sell their crops directly to private agents rather than
through these mandis. However, the system is inefficient and deserves to be
seriously reformed. However, it does provide a safety net by ensuring sales and
expected incomes. Nonetheless, the farm bills disrupt a system vital to
communities in Punjab and Haryana. The majority of them are concerned that
the bills will lead to a deterioration of regulated markets, price guarantees, and
stable living standards-and put their fates in the hands of big corporations. With
70 percent of Indians depending on agriculture to support their livelihoods, and
82% of farmers being small and marginal (e.g., with less than 5 acres of land),
these laws put them still further at risk. After the protests, the Indian Supreme
Court halted the three bills and appointed a committee to examine the farmers'
demands on January 12. Protest leaders have however responded with
skepticism, saying that the committees are made up of pro-law members. In
honor of India's Republic Day on 26 January 2021, thousands of farmers drove
into Delhi in a large convoy of tractors in a farmer's parade. There was a clash
with the police when the protesters deviated from pre-sanctioned routes. Later
protesters reached the Red Fort and erected flags at the rampart of the Red Fort.
These acts, often referred to as the Farm Bills, are considered anti-farmer laws
by many farmer unions, and farmers' opponents claim that it will leave them to
the mercy of corporations. Additionally, the farmers have requested that a
Minimum Support Price (MSP) law be passed so that corporations cannot
dictate the price of crops. Nevertheless, the government maintains that the new
laws will enable farmers to sell directly to big buyers, and claims that the
protests are based on false information. Farmers' unions have been protesting,
but the Indian Government claims some unions support farm laws. By mid-
December, the Supreme Court of India had received a batch of petitions asking
for the removal of the blockades around Delhi. It has been reported that farmers
will not listen to the courts if told to back off. They have also stated that staying
under the farm laws is not the solution. Due to the unjust new rules that farmers
have been subjected to, the world has engaged in its largest protest in history. It
is a movement that is taking place thousands of miles away but that embodies
the humanizing spirit of agrarian reform, shaped by decades of hardship, that
has finally caught the attention of the world. During a televised address on 19
November 2021, Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, said that his
government would repeal the three acts during the upcoming winter
parliamentary session in December. In his statement, he lamented that despite
several attempts to explain the law's benefits, his government had failed to
convince farmers. On Guru Purab, his government has repealed the three farm
laws. Modi's decision may have been influenced by the state elections in Punjab
and Uttar Pradesh in 2022. The national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Kisan
Union, Rakesh Tikait, stated that protests would cease only if the laws are
repealed.