86% farmers supported now-repealed farm laws, finds Supreme Court-appointed panel

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New Delhi: The panel appointed by the Supreme Court has found that nearly 86% of farmers support three central agricultural laws which are now revoked in the center of protests throughout the year by various farmers’ clothes.

“Around 85.7 percent of farm organizations, representing more than 3.3 crore farmers, supporting agricultural law,” Panel said in his findings. The bilateral interaction of the panel with stakeholders shows that only 13.3 percent of stakeholders who do not support three laws.

Interestingly, the panel designated by SC does not support the total attack of the three controversial agricultural laws and vice versa has suggested to leave the procurement of plants at a certain price to countries and discard important commodity actions.

This was revealed by one of three panel members on Monday while releasing a committee report. Two other members – Ashok Gulati economist and Agri-economist Pramod Kumar Joshi – not present at a press conference in a hurry called here.

Pune-based farmer leader Anil Ghanwat said he had three occasions written to the Supreme Court to release a committee report but in the absence of a response, he released himself.

According to him, the committee said that “the revocation or long-suspension of this law will be unfair for the majority of silence that supports agricultural law.” The preferred panel provides flexibility in legal implementation and design.

The panel has submitted its recommendations in three agricultural laws, which included farmers to sell Agri to produce private entities outside the government’s Mandis, on March 19, 2021. Three agricultural laws were revoked by the Government of Narendra Modi in November. Last year, ahead of assembly elections at Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.

Overcoming a press conference, Ghanwat said the committee also suggested many changes in the law, including providing the freedom to state the legal minimum support system (MSP).

The panel also suggests that open procurement policies must be stopped and the model contract agreement must be formulated. This report has no relevance now because the law has been revoked but will help in making policies for the agricultural sector in the future, Ghanwat said, which is the President of the SWATANTRA BHARAT party.

In addition to the feedback from those who made personal deposition, the panel also received comments on three laws through online portals where about two-thirds of respondents liked the law. Feedback received by email also shows that the majority of supporting laws. Ghanwat said 40 trade unions, who have organized agitation on the law under the banner of Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), did not make submissions despite repeated requests.

On November 19, 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the withdrawal of three agricultural laws, said the government could not be convincing to protest farmers about the benefits of reform.

Revocation of three agricultural legislatives – trade and trade results (promotion and facilitation and facilitation). Farmers (empowerment and protection) of the price guarantee agreement and agricultural service law; And important commodity (amendment) – is one of the main demands of around 40 farmers who protested this reform on the Delhi border.

Protests began on the FAG-late November 2020 and ended after parliament revoked three laws. Legislation came into force in June 2020 through regulations and later, they were released by Parliament in September 2020. At the end of September. In the end, the law was revoked in November 2021 even though the Supreme Court has continued to carry out arrangements of laws also from the panel on January 202.

At the demand for farmer unions to legalize the MSP system, the panel said in his report that the request was not based on good logic and was not feasible to apply. MSP and procurement support policies, such as those designed for cereal during the green revolution time, need to be reviewed recalling that large wheat and rice surpluses have emerged.

The Committee recommends that the procurement of plants in MSP which is declared can be a state prerogative in accordance with their specific agricultural policy priorities. “Countries can provide legal support for their own procurement – because of the recent Punjab Amendment Act. Kerala, for example, recently announced MSP for fruits and vegetables. Some countries also announced a bonus on MSP announced by MSP center, “he said.

Other options suggested by the panel are to give freedom to choose the recipient of the PDS to choose a cash transfer equivalent to MSP + 25 percent for each kg of wheat rights or get it in the form of goods (wheat or rice).