Farmers Bill: 3 bills related to farmers have passed in Lok Sabha. Voting took place in the Lok Sabha. Before the vote, other opposition parties, including Congress, walked out. Earlier, Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur resigned in protest against these Bills.
Explain that in the current Monsoon Session of the Central Government Parliament, the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Agricultural Services related to farmers and necessary The Goods (Amendment) Bill, 2020 has been brought.
Two of these have passed in the Lok Sabha today. While an essential item (amendment) bill has already been passed in the Lok Sabha
Farmers are opposing these bills in a big way. In Punjab, Haryana, farmers are demonstrating on a large scale. There is a demand for the withdrawal of these bills. Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has resigned in protest against this bill.
Sukhvir Singh Badal of Punjab Akali Dal said that this bill would affect 20 lakh farmers. These bills are dangerous for farmers.
Regarding these bills, BJP President JP Nadda said a day ago that the three bills related to farmers (Agriculture Bill), which the Union Government has brought in Parliament, are very revolutionary. These bills will get changes at the ground level, which will change the farmers’ picture.
Addressing a press conference held at the BJP headquarters, Nadda claimed that these three bills are very far-sighted. These three bills are significant and beneficial in boosting investment in agriculture. These bills will prove to increase the prices of farmers’ produce at a breakneck pace.
He said that ‘All three bills would work to give new freedom to the farmers. After this, the farmer will have the freedom to sell his produce. These three bills are very revolutionary and will bring changes at the ground level.
This will change the farmers’ picture and change fate; there will be a fundamental change in their conditions. The product will get its fair price. Nadda alleged that the Congress is opposing these bills today while making similar promises as part of its manifesto to woo farmers in elections.
What are these bills?
The Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, accommodates making an environment. This incorporates encouraging farmers’ and retailers’ determination to buy and sell Farmers products at sensible costs through straightforward and continuous serious elective exchange channels outside the physical edifices or equine business sectors of informed business sectors under different state farming produce promoting enactment. Will have the option to profit.
Simultaneously, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Price Assurance Contracts and Agricultural Services Bill, 2020, gives a public structure on rural arrangements that give farmers agrarian exchange firms, processors wholesalers, exporters, or enormous retailers of cultivating administrations. What’s more, it provides a commonly concurred productive value structure reasonably and straightforwardly.
What is in the bill?
1. Agricultural Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill: The products can be sold anywhere. You will get better prices. There will be online sales.
2. Farmer (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Agricultural Services: Farmers’ income will increase. Middlemen will end. The supply chain will be ready.
3. Essential Items (Amendment): Cereals, pulses, edible oils, potatoes, and onions will no longer be compulsory items. They will be stored. Foreign investment in agriculture will be attracted.
Why is this bill opposed?
1. Mandis are over, then farmers will not get MSP i.e., minimum support price. One Nation One must be MSP.
2. There is no mechanism to fix prices. There are fears that this will give private companies a means of exploitation of farmers. The farmer will become a laborer.
3. Businessmen will hoard. This will cause price volatility. Food security will end. This may increase the black marketing of essential commodities.
