In September, the government brought three new agricultural bills, which have become law after the President’s approval. But the farmers are not getting these laws because they say that these will harm the farmers and benefit private buyers and corporate houses. One of these is the Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Agricultural Services Act, 2020, which aims to allow contract farming. Let’s know what is contract farming and why are farmers opposing it?
Under contract farming, the farmer cultivates his land, but not for himself but for someone else. In this, the farmer does not have to spend money and a company or a man contracts with the farmer that the contractor will buy the particular crop grown by the farmer for a fixed price. All the expenses from fertilizer and seeds to irrigation and wages are from the contractor.
Contract farming not only benefits the farmers but also improves the condition and direction of farming. Apart from this contract forming is beneficial in following ways:
With the above benefits there are following challenges as well of contract forming:
Let us know the main point of the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Agricultural Services Bill, 2020.
There are some doubts in the mind of general public. These doubts are:
As per my understanding following are my concluding remark:
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