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Govt. Resumes Talks With Protesting Farmers Over Agri Reforms

Dec 3, 2020 | Pratirodh Bureau

Farmers shout slogans during a protest against the newly-passed farm bills at Singhu border near Delhi on December 3, 2020

Union ministers began talks with farmers’ leaders on Thursday to try and break a deadlock, over laws passed earlier this year seeking to de-regulate the agriculture sector, that has ignited the country’s biggest farm protests in years.

Tens of thousands of growers have camped out at the entrance to capital Delhi in protest against the laws seeking to rid the sector of antiquated procurement procedures and to allow farmers to sell to institutional buyers and big international retailers.

The farmers, who form a powerful political constituency, fear the laws passed in September could pave the way for the government to stop buying grains at guaranteed prices, leaving them at the mercy of private buyers.

The protests pose a crucial test for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ability to reform India’s vast agriculture sector.

Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Trade Minister Piyush Goyal have started discussions with nearly three-dozen farmers’ representatives, a government official said.

“We expect the government to pay heed to our demands to repeal the laws detrimental to India’s farming community,” said Joginder Singh Ugrahan, a prominent farmers’ leader.

Modi’s government has defended the bill and several hours of talks between farmers’ leaders and the government on Tuesday failed to break the impasse.

India’s vast farm sector makes up nearly 15% of the country’s $2.9 trillion economy and employs around half of its 1.3 billion people.

“We humbly request you to pay heed to the voice of farmers and withdraw completely the implementation of these Acts,” Avik Saha, another farmers’ leader, said in a letter written to the Agriculture Minister on Thursday.

“The issue is not about one particular clause, but about the direction in which the government of India is pushing farming in India,” Saha wrote.

Farm groups say the government is trying to end a decades-old policy of providing them with an assured minimum price for producing staples, such as wheat and rice.

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