Thread by @IYRKRao

Agricultural Acts - twisted facts Vs facts.

1. farmer can not sell his bag of rice in Assam from AP since it is one national market hence the act is not useful is twisting of fact.

Fact is with market yard check posts gone there will be freedom of movement of goods .

With freedom to buy outside market yards and within market yards competition will be more benefitting the farmer with a better price .market yards also improve their performance since there is competition . #FarmersAct2020
#DelhiFarmersProtest

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2. Apprehension .
The present government market yards will be forced to shut down due to the new act .
Truth
This is not correct . Government market yards have Freeland given by government , corpus from market fee .

Nominated market committee chairmen who till now are milking the market yards for personal benefit now be responsible and responsive to farmers since alternative of selling out side market yard is available . #AgriculturalLaw #DelhiFarmersProtest

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3.Apprehension
Ambanis and Adanis will set up private markets . Agricultural commodities will go into corporate hands

Truth
Private capital comes only when there are profits . Market yards do not seem to be very profitable.

Andhra pradesh combined state permitted setting up private market yards a decade back under marketing act . Till now there are only two or three private market yards .

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4. Untruth

States were not consulted before passing this act .

Truth

That states were not consulted is a out right lie . These acts were under discussion with states right from Congress time . They were circulated as model laws

For states to enact . Some states enacted some provisions. A P permitted private market yards by amending the act .

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5. Under contract farming big companies will enter and exploit farmers .

Should there be investments in warehousing , post harvest technologies,processing ,grading,blue addition?

If answer is yes where will it come from ?

Governments have tried failed . Agro industries corps in all states gone bankrupt writing down public investment .cooperatives but for #amul there is no other success . Today biggest problem is storage losses ,and low value for agriculture commodities due to lack of processing .

Intellectuals who oppose it suggest where investment will come.We need investment here for agriculture to turn profit . Yes we need proper frame work to control corporates but foolish to throw the baby with bath water . #FarmersProtestDelhi #agriculturalreforms #contractfarming

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6. Apprehension

Essential commodities act amendment will lead to hoarding .

Truth

First of all this act is in the realm of consumer welfare hence no point in clubbing this in farm laws .

These limits for days of perpetual shortages . Today that is not the case . There can be seasonal shortages . This amendment takes care of seasonal issues prescribing limits once prices go up by certain level

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