Every single govt up until now has been ‘pro-farmer’. Every single govt up until now has promised to work for the farmers and farmers alone. Yet it took @narendramodi govt to unshackle the real farmer from the tyranny of licence raj quota system. Credit where credit is due
Every single ‘public intellectual’ worth his salt wrote about ‘farming distress’, but none of them ever asked their favorite ‘liberal’ politicians why did they not liberalize agriculture, allow market prices to prevail over essential commodities and dismantle APMC
Taking the power of states away from agriculture sector is the best thing that could happen. Private sector competition is exactly what we needed to break the APMC cartels. This truly is a ‘Big Bang reform’ although those asking for Big Bang reforms till now will never concede
