Sale of pulses, cereals deregulated to benefit farmers
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Sale of pulses, cereals deregulated to benefit farmers
The government will amend the six-and-a-half-decade old Essential Commodities Act to deregulate food items, including cereals, edible oil, oilseeds, pulses, onion and potato, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday.
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another blunder in making. they obviously didn’t think it through
It will be as beneficial as Petrol and Diesel deregulation has been for consumers.
Mukesh Ambani had once said that he has a dream to sell everything from a pin to an aeroplane under his name in India. Seems his dream is coming true 
Sometimes I feel he is the most powerful man in India and Mr. PM is his pawn 
@ OP. Govt Delivered non veg too. Pls add to post 
https://twitter.com/keypadguerilla/status/12608...
The main reasons why farmers struggle are:
1. Weather
2. Not chosing right crop to grow.
3. Using old equipments for harvesting
From start to end you are pointing everything on APMCs. Do you think that APMCs are responsible even for this?
Regarding Ragi – All products have different grades. The Ragi which couldn’t be procured by Govt is A Grade? Tell me honestly. The first one to buy would always buy the A Grade material. It’s human tendency. A Grade & B Grade prices should be same? As i said my family business is related to APMCs. We know how smart farmers are. I am not accusing them because i know they suffer a lot but a coin has 2 sides. You can’t look at one side of the coin and make your thesis.
I am not at all saying that do not build storage. Build storage. Create Infrastructure but do not pick APMCs for your false accusations.
If you were to invest 5 Crore how much would you want to earn without doing anything?
Seriously when did I say 100% of the problems are only because of APMCs (please point it out). I said APMCs (aka middle men) are one of the big problems when it comes to selling of the produce. Even if a farmer gets a good produce (because all the prblms you mentioned are taken care of) still the brokers will screw them when it comes to give them good prices.
I don’t know if you have seen how they take the produce to APMC. But farmers don’t have a way of segregating the produce when it comes to grains and pulses. Whatever they produce is filled into gunny bags and are taken. So they offer the same thing to the govt purchaser as well as the private agents. Yes I am not saying all agents are well off but they chose that profession. But for a farmer they don’t have a choice, they don’t know to do anything else. So calling them “smart” by which you might mean everyone is and they are “chalu” types (the word used by the brokers) is not right.
Also I am not the only one making these accusations. Many bigger intellectuals have done it and it has been widely discussed in the academia. Even the govts have acknowledged this and this is why we are seeing this deregulation.
I don’t know why you are asking me about the 5 crore investment? Does that mean the middle men have the rights to exploit the farmers just because they have invested big?
…Farmer = disposable tissue for all governments….
Not just governments. The seller of agriculture inputs, buyers of their output, money lenders everyone exploits them sadly.
Deregulation to benefit farmers? Since when?? Lol..