Farmer’s Protest 2020

                      

8 October Bharat band !!!! 

But why , why the people who feed the nation on road ? What they want ? Why everyone should support ?

Do we know the exact reason ?

Let's support our "अन्नदाता" together but first let's know why & for what it's going on! And then support with full knowledge.

A set of three laws on agriculture passed by Parliament in September has led to thousands of farmers staging protests on the outskirts of Delhi over the past two weeks.

The protesting farmers have expressed their apprehension that the new farm laws will eliminate the safety cushion of MSP and scrap the mandis, thereby leaving them at the mercy of big corporates. However, the government has repeatedly assured them that MSP will not be scrapped.

The farmers are protesting against 2 Farm Bills that the Rajya Sabha recently passed: (1) the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, and (2) the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020.

The two bills had already cleared the lower house – the Lok Sabha. When they were introduced in the Rajya Sabha, there was ruckus and finally, the Bill was passed through a voice vote.

This Bill allows the farmers to sell their produce outside the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) regulated markets. The APMCs are government-controlled marketing yards or mandis. So, the farmers clearly have more choice on who they want to sell. The government's logic, economic expert Gurcharan Das writes in TOI, is that the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) is an obsolete institution from an age of scarcity, meant to protect the farmer but has now become his oppressor, a monopoly cartel fixing low prices for the farmers' produce, forcing distress sales.

How MSP affects farmers: 

MSP is the minimum price paid by the government when it procures any crop from the farmers. It is announced by the state-run Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) for more than 22 commodities on an annual basis, after calculating the cost of cultivation.

What the government says:

The three farm laws have been projected by the government as major reforms in the agriculture sector that will remove middlemen and allow farmers to sell anywhere in the country.

Until 2020, the first sale of agriculture produce could occur only at the mandis of the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC). However, after the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020 came into force it allows farmers to sell outside APMC mandis in India.

 By Modi government “Khalistani hand” nonsense was tried, and it bombed. It was as much of a misstep as leaders of the Congress calling Anna Hazare “steeped in corruption, head to toe”. Remember that principle in marketing — nothing fails more spectacularly than an obvious lie. As this Khalistan slur was.

जिन्होंने उम्र भर तलवार का गीत गाया है, 

उनके शब्द लहू के होते हैं, 

लहू लोहे का होता है, 

जो मौत के किनारे जीते हैं, 

उनकी मौत से ज़िन्दगी का सफ़र शुरू होता है, 

जिनका लहू और पसीना मिटटी में गिर जाता है, 

वे मिट्टी में दब कर उग आते हैं! 

जय किसान!!!

                                 - अदिर