IN THE NAME OF ALLAH

THE MOST BENEFICIENT THE MOST MERCIFUL

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FARMERS PROTEST IN INDIA
(SEP 20 – CURRENT)

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 OVERVIEW

Dates

27 Sep – Till to date (2 M 17 D)

Caused by

Passing of three Farm bills by Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha

Parties to the Conflict

 All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee

Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare
 Bharatiya Kisan Union

Cas & Losses

At least 15 farmers dead and hundreds injured till to

date

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 INTRO
 Under the Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act passed in 1964, it was
compulsory for farmers to sell their produce at government-regulated markets, or mandis,
where middlemen helped growers sell harvests to either the state-run company or private
players
 PM Narendra Modi in his election campaign promised reforms for the farmers and
Agriculture Industry
 After the success in elections, he was under constant pressure to bring on the promised
reforms
 On 27 Sep 20 President Ram Nath Kovind passed The Indian Farm Reforms
 The bills collectively seek to provide farmers with multiple marketing channels and provide
a legal framework for farmers
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 ACTS
 Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020
– Expands the scope of trade areas of farmers' produce from sel areas to "any place of production,
collection, aggregation"
– Allows electronic trading and e-commerce of farmers' produce
– Prohibits state govts from levying any market fee or levy on farmers & traders
 Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020
– Provides a legal framework for farmers to enter into pre-arng contracts with buyers
– Defines a dispute resolution mechanism
 Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020
– Removes foodstuff such as cereals, pulses, potato, onions, edible oilseeds and oils, from the list of
essential commodities, removing stockholding limits on such items except under "extraordinary
circumstances
– Reqs that imposition of any stock limit on agricultural produce be based on price rise
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 STANCE OF GOVT
 The new laws will :-
 Bring an ecosystem that will give farmers the freedom of choice to sell and purchase
their produce inter-state and intra-state
 Be beneficial to not only farmers but also traders and consumers
 Allow farmers to engage in direct marketing of their crops
 Monopoly of APMC mandis will end but Mandis will not be shut down
 Minimum Support Price (MSP) - the price at which the government buys farm produce - will
not be scrapped
 The new laws give farmers addl choices to sell their produce anywhere in the country, in
contrast to the earlier situation where inter-state trade was not allowed
 State governments, which earn an income through transactions at mandis, stand to lose
out on tax revenues as trade moves out of state or into the domain of pte deals
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 WHAT DO FARMERS FEAR

 No written assurance regarding MSP, only verbal assurance given by govt

 Farmers will not get the req price of their crop from the coys
 Mandis, where farmers have been selling their produce until now, will cease to func as big
pte players will dictate prices of farm produce
 As a result, big companies will be in adv in case of disputes
 Small farmers, who have no access to Stg Facilities will ultimately resort to selling their
crop at unsustainable rates
 Interstate trading is not possible since most farmers are below poverty line and cannot
afford interstate tpt of crop

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 PROVISIONS UNDER THE NEW LAW

 Farmers will be to enter into a contract with processors, wholesalers, aggregators, large

retailers and exporters directly so as to realize the full price of the produce

 Farmers be assured of the price of their produce even before sowing of crops

 Farmers will not be charged any tpt cost at the time of sale

 Farmers will get access to modern tech, better seed and other inputs that enable better

growth of the produce

 Farmers are allowed Hoarding of their Crop for inc profit

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 DEMANDS OF FARMERS

 Revocation of all the three Farm Bills

 Legally ensure minimum support price (MSP)
 Raise MSP to at least 50% more than cost of average weighted production
 Revoke Commission of Air Quality in NCR and adjoining areas (2020)
 To Implement the recoms of National Commission on Farmers
 To take back all the cases registered against farm union leaders, writers, human right
activists, poets and intellectuals
 To reduce diesel prices by 50% for agricultural activities
 To revoke Electricity (amendment) Ordinance (2020)

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 PREVAILING ENVMT

 With the Centre-farmer talks ending in a stalemate, thousands of farmers are staying put at

Delhi borders to press for repeal of the agri marketing laws

 A meeting called by Home Minister Amit Shah ended in failure

 Farmer leaders rejected the government’s offer to amend new farm laws and said they

would settle for nothing less than the scrapping of the legislations

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THANK YOU

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