Farmers have withdrawn their year-long protest against the Centre. The development comes after the Parliament formally revoked the three contentious farm laws.
India Today Editor-in-Chief Aroon Purie examines the implications of the farm legislations on a sector untouched by reform for decades, in the November 9, 2020 edition of the India Today Magazine.
Declaring the entire state as a principal market yard can isolate Punjab since the Centre is the major buyer of the wheat and paddy produced in Punjab.
Unchecked corporate power and increasing political influence have left farmers to operate under the push ‘get big or get out’ and often driven abuse of farmers’ rights.
The new Bills may initially help some medium and large farmers but will help the private sector even more. The small farmers are outside the reach of the market today and will continue to suffer as before.
AAP has stood with the farmers’ cause since it came to power in Delhi. In the days to come, the party will strategise to contribute more critically to the injustice against peasants.
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