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Farm Acts, Let’s Spread Reality
1. The Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill
Allow farmers to sell their produce outside d Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC)
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APMCs r Govt Controlled Mandis. So farmers clearly hv more choice who dey wanna sell NOW
APMC is an obsolete institution has now become farmers oppressor, a monopoly cartel fixing low prices for d farmers' produce, forcing distress sales, 1st good Pt
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2. The Farmers (Empowerment & Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance & Farm Services Bill
Dis Bill makes provisions for d setting up of a framework for contract farming
Farmer & an ordained buyer can strike a deal EVEN before d production happens
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3. The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill 2020
The FPTC (Promotion & Facilitation) Ordinance allows intra-state & inter-state trade of farmers produce beyond d physical premises of APMC markets
State Govts can’t levy any market Fee/Cess outside APMC areas
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Benefits
1 Can avoid APMC/Middleman & sell d produce anywhere to anyone
2 Bypass d Essential Commodities Act & be free to store inventory
3 Free to make contracts & transfer risk to Businessmen in deals made over a crop EVEN before yield is made
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