2021 saw an intense stand-off between the Centre & farmer groups over the 3 farm laws. Several rounds of talks between the government and farmers failed to break the deadlock. Massive protests at the Red Fort, lathi charge on farmers in Karnal and killing of farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri took the tensions to a boiling point.
Finally on November 19, PM Modi announced that the government will repeal the contentious farm laws. How did the government finally agree to repeal the farm laws? Watch video for more.
Record foodgrains production likely in 2022; farm laws repeal, price rise bitter pills for agri sector
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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The Indian agriculture sector, which was among the few segments that remained robust amid the pandemic gales, is expected to register a growth rate of 3.5 percent in the current financial year.
India achieved record foodgrains production this year but the withdrawal of three agri-reform laws and spike in cooking oil prices cast a shadow on the country’s resilient agriculture sector that is on course for better harvest in 2022 despite pandemic blues. While soaring production of foodgrains that also helped the government provide free additional rations for COVID-hit poor families for many months together came as a relief, the passing year will be remembered for the long-drawn farmers’ protest at Delhi borders against the three laws and subsequent repeal of the legislation.
The Indian agriculture sector, which was among the few segments that remained robust amid the pandemic gales, is expected to register a growth rate of 3.5 percent in the current financial year ending March 2022. Foodgrains production hit an all-time high in the 2020-21 crop year that ended in June at 308.65 million tonnes. The production could reach 310 million tonnes in the current crop year.
The government procured huge quantities of wheat, rice, pulses, cotton and oilseeds at the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for the benefit of farmers. During 2020-21, paddy and wheat procurement reached a record 894.18 lakh tonnes and 433.44 lakh tonnes, respectively. Procurement of pulses touched 21.91 lakh tonnes, coarse grains 11.87 lakh tonnes and oilseeds 11 lakh tonnes, as per official data.
As production and procurement continued smoothly, the farmers’ agitation, which started in November 2020, finally ended this month after Parliament passed a Bill on the first day of Winter Session on November 29, to repeal the three contentious farm laws. The Supreme Court had stayed implementation of these laws in January itself. Farmers unions are claiming victory after they forced the Centre to accede to their demands. In contrast, economists and government officials see it as a setback in ushering in reforms in the agricultural marketing system.
The jury is still out on the merit of these three laws. ”We were expecting one-fifth of the country’s farmers to benefit from the implementation of the three farm reforms. We completely lost that opportunity. However, I feel the setback is only temporary,” Niti Aayog Member Ramesh Chand told PTI.
Had farm laws been implemented, the Niti Aayog member said, ”it would have helped achieve the target of doubling farmers income to a large extent. We had put nearly 20 per cent increase in income on implementation of the farm laws”. The three laws, passed by Parliament in September 2020, were aimed at giving marketing freedom to farmers beyond notified mandis. A framework for contract farming and regulating supply of essential commodities only under extraordinary circumstances were the other main objectives.
Chand said, the overall performance of the agricultural sector has been robust this year. ”The agri-growth rate is intact. This year, we expect 3.5 per cent growth rate in agriculture by the end of March 2022, same as last year’s level,” he said. Record production of foodgrains helped the agriculture sector to maintain its growth rate.
Agriculture Commissioner S K Malhotra said the country’s foodgrains production could touch 310 million tonnes in the 2021-22 crop year (July-June). Good monsoon rains, adoption of new technologies and successful implementation of government schemes like PM-KISAN have aided the rise in production. Malhotra said crop productivity has been improving as farmers are adopting better seed varieties that give higher yields and are high in nutritional value, besides having resistance to diseases and adverse climatic conditions.
The official also pointed out that the unseasonal rains affected perishable and horticulture produce in some parts of the country. As a result, prices of some commodities like tomatoes came under pressure. Despite bumper production of oilseeds crops, the edible oil prices skyrocketed to unprecedented levels on global cues. India meets about 60-65 per cent of the domestic demand of edible oils through imports, which jumped to a record Rs 1.17 lakh crore in 2020-21 season, ended October. Prices of mustard oil rose to around Rs 200 per litre and prices of other cooking oils also went up.
During the year, the government reduced import duties of palm oil as well as other oils multiple times to ease domestic prices but rates are still ruling high. To keep the prices under control, the government also banned futures trading in many commodities and also imposed stockholding limits on traders and wholesalers. A sharp rise in rabi oilseeds acreage has given hope for a likely fall in cooking oil prices in the New Year.
Among other developments, co-operative major IFFCO launched nano-urea in liquid form that promises to reduce India’s import as well as subsidy bill. ”We started producing nano urea commercially and we have so far produced 1.5 crore bottles of nano urea which helped save Rs 6,000 crore of government’s subsidy,” IFFCO MD U S Awasthi said and urged the government to support production of such innovative products.
2021 also saw huge investments in agritech startups that are working in the area of farm advisory, provisions of inputs and marketing support among others. New technologies like drones are being used in the farm sector. The government has already announced the setting up of a committee to address the key demand of protesting farmer unions — a legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP) regime.
Hopefully, an amicable solution on the MSP issue is expected in the New Year.
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No plans to bring back repealed farm laws again; Congress creating confusion: Agriculture minister
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Sunday said the government has no plan to bring back the recently repealed farm laws, and urged farmers to be wary of “confusion” being created by the Congress on this issue.
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Sunday said the government has no plan to bring back the recently repealed farm laws, and urged farmers to be wary of “confusion” being created by the Congress on this issue. Tomar, in a statement, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had decided to withdraw agriculture reform laws to protect the interest of farmers.
“The government has no plan to bring the (repealed) agriculture laws again…Congress is indulging in a negative work of spreading confusion to cover up its failures,” Tomar said and asked farmers to beware of this. In his address to the nation on November 19, Modi had announced withdrawal of the three controversial farm laws in a bid to end a year-long massive protest by farmers at the borders of the national capital.
These laws were passed in Parliament in September 2020 but the Supreme Court had stayed their roll out in March 2021 and finally were repealed on November 29 by passing a bill due to mounting pressure from protesting farmers.
These three laws were: The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020; The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
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Farmers continue to block railway tracks in Punjab; here’s why they are protesting
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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The “rail roko” demonstration, organised under the banner of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC), began on Monday. The protests have spread across Amritsar, Ferozepur, Hoshiarpur, and Tarn Taran. Rail services have been affected in these areas. Farmers are demanding compensation for the kin of deceased protestors, a complete loan waiver, withdrawal of criminal charges and additional compensation.
Farmers in Punjab have been staging protests, demanding compensation for the kin of those who died during the year-long protests against the controversial farm laws that were finally repealed during the Winter Session of Parliament.
The “rail roko” demonstration, organised under the banner of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC), began on Monday. The protests have spread across Amritsar, Ferozepur, Hoshiarpur, and Tarn Taran. Rail services have been affected in these areas.
Even after the Centre’s withdrawal of the unpopular farm laws, farmers across India, and especially in the North, continue to have grievances.
Why are the farmers protesting?
Farmer groups have put forth several demands that have not yet been met by the central and state governments.
The farmers under the KMSC, in particular, are demanding compensation for the kin of those who died during the anti-farm law stir. Alongside demands for compensation, the farmers are also demanding a complete loan waiver. Some other demands include compensation for damaged crops at Rs 50,000 per acre, release of pending payments for the sugarcane crop and abolition of the contract system.
The demonstrators are also asking for the withdrawal of criminal charges against the protestors who took part in the farm laws stir.
Satnam Singh Pannu, a farmer leader, had stated that the dharna will continue until all of the demands of the farmers are met, reported PTI.
Paramjit Singh Ghloti, a senior leader of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan), added, “We are agitating against the non-implementation of the promises made by the Punjab government, led by Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi. The government is befooling farmers.”
How have trains been affected?
With farmers sitting on various railway tracks as part of their demonstrations, rail services across various parts of Punjab have been disrupted. Over 150 trains were disrupted from the normal schedule as a result.
“84 trains were cancelled, 47 were short-terminated and 25 were short-originated,” Ferozepur division railway officials told PTI.
Cancelled trains include the Amritsar-Jaynagar Saryu Yamuna Express (14650), Amritsar-Nanded Superfast (12422), Amritsar-Chandigarh Intercity Express (12412), Amritsar-Howrah Express (13006), Amritsar-Mumbai Golden Temple Express (12904), Amritsar-Darbhanga Jannayak Express (15212) and Amritsar-Dehradun Express (14632).
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Electoral reform bill: Centre should have learnt from farmers’ protests, tried for a consensus, says ex-CEC Quraishi
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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Former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi said he did not agree with the way in which the Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021, was passed without discussion in Parliament today. The former CEC said the Centre should have learnt from the farm bills’ fiasco and taken the opposition into confidence to arrive at a consensus.
Former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) SY Quraishi today said the Centre should have learnt from the farm bills’ fiasco and consulted all stakeholders before tabling the Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which passed in Parliament earlier in the day amid protests by the opposition.
Quraishi said the Election Commission of India (ECI) had been grappling with the ballooning problem of duplication of voters, and considered the idea of linking Aadhaar with the voters’ ID as a way to eliminate the problem.
“The process had started long ago, when the Aadhaar authority [UIDAI] was setup. That was the time when we were grappling with the problem of removing duplicate voters. So we had decided that we will link up with Aadhaar when it is ready. So in principle, we agreed that we needed to integrate with Aadhaar,” said Quraishi, who was ECI chief from 2010 to 2012.
Quraishi also said he disagreed with the way the bill was brute-forced through without much discussion in Parliament.
“I did not understand why the bill had to be pushed down the throats of people in Parliament without much discussion,” he said. “Have they not learnt a lesson from the farm bills? They did exactly the same thing then too,” he added.
A better way, Quraishi said, would have been to take the opposition into confidence, which have made the whole process smoother.
“Why couldn’t the government take everybody into confidence and explain to the opposition parties that they want to clean up the rolls? As it is everybody’s concern, it should have been discussed in a very positive manner and consensus should have been arrived at,” he said.
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Farm law protest: After a year of struggle, 2 COVID waves and extreme weather, farmers bid Delhi borders an emotional adieu
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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Farmers protest: After more than a year of protest against three contentious farm laws at Delhi borders, farmers have started their journey home. In colourful tractors decked up lights, they took out a ‘Victory March’ to celebrate the repeal of three farm laws.
When thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, started on tractors from their villages in November last year to protest against three contentious farm laws, little did they know Delhi’s Singhu, Tikri, and Ghazipur borders were going be their home for more than a whole year.
Needless to say, it wasn’t a smooth ride. But the agriculture laws have finally been repealed, as promised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Gurupurab this November. President Ram Nath Kovind signed off on the Farm Laws Repeal Bill on December 1.
After more than a year of struggle, violence, an unknown number of deaths, a social media storm, police cases, arrests, meetings with the authorities, tractor marches, two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, a brave face against chilly winter mornings, scorching summer afternoons, and heavy rains in makeshift tents, and a few unresolved threads, farmers began bidding an emotional adieu to the Delhi borders on December 11.
They’re returning home with a written assurance from the Centre to fulfill their other demands, including constituting a committee for a legal guarantee on minimum support price (MSP) for crops.
Farmers vacate a protest site after the government agreed to their demands, including an assurance to consider guaranteed prices for all produce, at the Singhu border near New Delhi, India, on December 11, 2021. (Image credit: Reuters)
They lifted blockades on highways at Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders and took out a ‘Victory March’ to celebrate the repeal of the three farm laws. Emotions ran high as the farmers set off for their homes in different states, including Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh, after a successful movement.
Traffic may be slow-moving in Delhi-NCR today but if people managed for over a year, they can certainly make do for one more day. After all, tractors decked up with colourful lights rolling out of protest sites blaring songs of victory, while the elderly flaunt their colourful turbans and dance with youngsters, ‘langars’ arrangements en route, ‘kirtan’ and bhangra’, all at once, is not a sight you get to see every day.
#WATCH | Protesting farmers sing ‘bhajan’ at Singhu border before vacating the site to return home, following the announcement of the suspension of their year-long protest. pic.twitter.com/rMjgSEChxW
“Probably it is our last breakfast here at the Singhu border in a langar. We will miss this place terribly,” Sangrur’s Sarendra Singh, 24, said as he took a bite of a bread pakora.
Kuljeet Singh Aulakh, a farmer from Moga in Punjab, tells PTI, “Singhu border had become our home for the last one year. This movement united us (farmers) all as we fought together against the black farm laws irrespective of caste, creed and religion. This is a historic moment and the victorious result of the movement is even bigger.”
Gurvinder Singh of Ambala never thought it will be this hard to go back home. “We have established a deep connection with the people and the place. This agitation will be in our memories forever,” he said, while fellow farmers dismanted tents and loaded them on to tractor trolleys.
Farmers ride a vehicle as they vacate a protest site after the government agreed to their demands, including assurance to consider guaranteed prices for all produce, at the Singhu border near New Delhi, India, December 11, 2021. (Image creditL Reuters)
Unlike the big protest days, like the Republic Day protest march or when the toolkit proceedings were underway, there was a thin police presence at Singhu Border today and the personnel present looked relaxed.
Meanwhile, villagers and others who supported farmers’ agitation carryed farmer bodies’ flags, showered petals on farmers as they assembled by the side of the highways to welcome them.
While many farmers have started their journey back home, a few of their peers have decided to stay back to continue with seva till every farmer returns home. They could also be seen cleaning the agitation sites where they stayed for over a year.
As Farmers start with their victory March many like 75 yr old Mahendra Singh & 65 yr old Iqbal Singh decide to stay back to continue with seva till every farmer returns home..
Farmers are also cleaning the agitation sites where they stayed for over a year.#FarmersProtestpic.twitter.com/DyMK0MWMFg
But is this the end? Will the farmers return? Maybe, maybe not. As the Centre accepted pending demands, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of 40 farm unions spearheading the stir, decided to suspend the farmers’ movement. Farmer leaders have said that they will meet again on January 15 to see if the government has fulfilled their demands.
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Govt says no farmer died due to police action during farmers’ protests
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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The year-long protest at the Delhi borders was suspended by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Thursday after the Union government accepted their key pending demands, including withdrawal of police cases against the protesters and on Minimum Support Price (MSP).
The Union government on Friday said that no farmer died due to police action during the year-long protests by farmers. Various farmer groups were protesting against three new farm laws, which have now been scrapped. The year-long protest at the Delhi borders was suspended by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Thursday after the Union government accepted their key pending demands, including withdrawal of police cases against the protesters and on Minimum Support Price (MSP).
In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Friday said, “the subject of compensation, etc. to the families of the deceased farmers in the farmers movement is with the concerned state governments”. “No farmer died as a result of police action during the farmers’ agitation,” he said.
Tomar was responding to a joint question by Congress leader Dhiraj Prasad Sahu and AAP leader Sanjay Singh. The members had asked whether the government is planning to provide or made any provision towards livelihood monetary compensation to the families of the farmers who died during farmers’ protests.
Opposition parties, including the Congress, have been raising the issue of deaths of farmers during the year-long protests. The SKM, which suspended the protests after receiving a formal letter from the Union government accepting their key pending demands, on Thursday also said that farmers would celebrate December 11 as ‘Vijay Diwas’ and take out victory marches following which they will head home. The SKM is an umbrella body of 40 farm unions.
Thousands of farmers, mainly from Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, were protesting at various Delhi borders from late November 2020, seeking repeal of the three farm laws. On November 29, Parliament passed a Bill to repeal the three laws. Replying to separate queries on the MSP, Tomar said, “a formal formation of a committee to promote zero budgeting based agriculture, to change crop pattern as per the changing needs of the country and to make MSP more effective and transparent is under consideration.” Asked if the government proposes to bring a law to give legal guarantee to MSP for every crop as recommended by Swaminathan Commission, the minister said the government has already implemented in 2018-19 the recommendation made by the National Commission on Farmers (NCF) to fix MSP at at least 50 per cent profit on weighted average cost of production.
The Centre fixes MSP for 22 mandated agricultural crops and Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) for sugarcane on the basis of the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP). The MSP for toria and de-husked coconut are also announced based on the MSP of rapeseed and mustard and copra, respectively.
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The 15-month long agitation by farmers on the borders of Delhi is coming to an end. The government has accepted all the demands of the farmers who will start vacating the protest sites on the 11th of December.
Addressing the press conference, the top farmer leaders said they received a formal letter from the government accepting their demands, including the unconditional withdrawal of all police cases.
Farmer unions will mark December 11 as “Vijay Diwas”. The unions will meet on the 15th of January to take stock of the progress made by the government in fulfilling its promises. The centre has agreed to form a committee to decide the MSP issue. The committee will consist of government officials, agriculture experts and representatives from the farmer unions.
Union government’s letter to farmers also says Haryana and Uttar Pradesh have given in-principle agreement to compensation for those who lost their lives. Punjab government has already made a similar announcement.
To discuss the road ahead, CNBC-TV18 spoke to Kiran Vissa, Member of AIKSCC and Ramandeep Mann, Farmer Activist.
Protesting farmers to return home on December 11 as Centre accepts demand
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh under the aegis of various farmers’ unions were protesting at the borders of Delhi since November 26, 2020, to demand repeal of the three farm laws.
Farmer unions to call off their over a year-long agitation as the Central government has accepted their demand. The protesting farmers will return to their villages after more than a year.
Farmers will vacate Delhi borders and return home on December 11, 2021. The protesting farmers received a letter from the Centre with promises of forming a committee on MSP and withdrawing cases against them immediately. “As far as the matter of compensation is concerned, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana have given in-principle consent,” the letter read.
Protesting farmers receive a letter from Govt of India, with promises of forming a committee on MSP and withdrawing cases against them immediately
"As far as the matter of compensation is concerned, UP and Haryana have given in-principle consent," it reads pic.twitter.com/CpIEJGFY4p
Farmer leader Gurnam Singh Charuni said farmers’ unions have decided to suspend the agitation following a meeting of Samyukta Kisan Morcha in Delhi. “We have decided to suspend our agitation. We will hold a review meeting on January 15. If the government doesn’t fulfill its promises, we could resume our agitation,” he said.
Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), or United Farmers’ Front, a coalition of farmers unions, in a statement, said that it has accepted the proposal from the Centre, and a consensus has emerged. “We’ve received a revised proposal from the government. We’ve accepted the proposal, and a consensus has emerged,” the SKM said.
Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh under the aegis of various farmers’ unions were protesting at the borders of the national capital since November 26, 2020, to demand repeal of the three farm laws. The farmers’ body said that nearly 700 farmers have been martyred in this struggle.
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