Reforms in Agriculture Sector

                      The 3 Acts, namely, Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce ( Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, Farmers ( Empowerement and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act 2020 and Essential Commodities ( Amendment ) Act, 2020 , which the Government of India enacted recently, have the potential to bring about  a major change in the economic condition of the farming community in India.  the farmers have now the option of trading their produce anywhee in the country and they cannot be bound by the rigid regime of local trade area . Government has also kept the system of Minimum Support Price (MSP) intact; only protection now the farmers want is that their making agreement to trade their produce be at a price which must be equal to or higher than the MSP.  In the Rules to be framed by the government ,  specific safeguards be there to protect the small and marginal farmers and that a situation of middleman  does not crop up  and if it so happens what measures be there to curb it.  After all, farmers must be freed from the age-old shackles    for good.

                   To ensure that the farmers really can double their income, the system of easy availability of soft credit,  fertilizer, good seeds couple with availabily of electricity, water  ( i.e. irrigation facility ) , crop insurane, proper road connectivity from the farm land etc are other important elements in this whole exercise; therefore, the central government in association with government must evolve a proper mechanism for the same .

Only problem one can visualize is on account of taking out cereals, pulses, potato, onion, edible oil sedds and oil from the list of essential commodities; it may lead to situation of artificial scarcity to be created by unscrupulous businessman and thus price rise leaving consumers high and dry.   Therefore, strict regulations need to be enforced in this regard.