India Farmers’ Protest

In this weeks episode Jazzy and Rajdeep talk about the ongoing farmers bill issues and protests happening right now in India. 

There is much controversy surrounding minimum support prices (MSPs) and the deregulation of India’s enormous agriculture sector. The new regulations allow traders to stockpile food. This will allow large corporations to hoard food supplies and allow them to dictate prices. The new rules remove many of their safeguards. More than 86 percent of India’s cultivated farmland is controlled by smallholder farmers who own less than two hectares (five acres) of land each. They fear that they just do not have enough bargaining power to get the kinds of prices they need for a decent standard of living when they negotiate to sell their produce to larger companies. Farmers say they fear they may lose key protections in the recently passed legislation. The new rules do not guarantee any minimum price for any product, and farmers worry that the existing MSP will be abolished at some point. Under the old regulations, state governments earned a fee for all the stuff sold through the mandis. As those sales fall, so do their state revenues. Then there are the middlemen who pretty much control the mandis and also stand to be big losers if farmers skip past their doors to sell directly to customers. 

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Support for Punjabi farmers in India:https://bit.ly/36tUoYj 

Petition to Revoke Farms Act 2020: https://bit.ly/3fXDa8G 

Stop Anti Farmers Bill of India: https://bit.ly/3lpVSHb 

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