Finally farm law repealed

                                                    FARM LAW REPEALED 

                              


After almost a year-long protest by thousands of farmers, mainly from Punjab and Haryana . Addressing the nation on the occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a big announcement that his government will repeal the three controversial agricultural reform laws enacted by the Parliament last year which were at the center of protests by farmers for the past year, and appealed to the protesting farmers to end their agitation and go back home. PM Modi insisted that the laws were in the benefit of farmers and then apologized to the people of the country for failing to convince a section of farmers despite its clear heart and a clean conscience.

                                              



 What were three laws?

The Farmer’s Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020: This law allowed farmers to trade their produce outside the physical markets notified under various state Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee laws (APMC acts). It overrode all the state-level APMC acts.

Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020: The law sought to make a legal framework for contract farming in its Sections 3-12. The farmers could enter into an immediate agreement with a buyer before sowing season to sell their produce at pre-determined prices. It allowed putting in place of farming agreements between farmers and sponsors. The law, however, failed to mention the MSP that buyers must offer to farmers.

Though the Centre said the law was a trial to liberate farmers by giving them option to sell anywhere, the farmers feared that it'd result in corporatization of agriculture. They also feared this could mean the MSP are removed.

Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020: Through an amendment, to the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, this law did away with the Centre’s powers to impose stock holding limits on food items, except under extraordinary circumstances.

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