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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)

@TajinderBagga @KapilMishra_IND @MODIfiedVikas

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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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Govt had 4 rounds of talks wid farmers' unions but impasse hs not been broken

Centre hs also assured MSP won’t be withdrawn but Farmers' lobby isn’t ready to buy that & demands d repeal of the recently passed Farm Bills

Why? Who’s misguiding farmers

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Punjab Farmers r looking at short term monetary gains while d Farm Bills were coined wid long-term economics in mind

False Rumours about MSP is gonna be withdrawn is being spread. Why

Well-funded group in a democracy can hijack the nation's interest

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Behind these protests r the Arthiyas, buying agents in APMC mandis who stand to lose Rs 100 crore a year in commissions with politicians

As well as the rich farmers of Punjab who are part of the 6 of India's farmers who benefit from the MSP regime

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Govt buys 89% of d rice in Punjab & 85% in Haryana

Farmers in Punjab/Haryana face NO price risk & r in fact incentivised to grow paddy & wheat

But d nation hs been facing a shortage of pulses

Wheat & Rice instead hv been a surplus in FCI’s godowns

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Overall Farm Acts r encouraging farmers to strike deals with large corporates

APMC monopoly is finished

Practically NO farmer lost money

Farmers are kings

But @AamAadmiParty @INCIndia @Akali_Dal_ see a chance of politics & spreading the rumours

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Let’s ignore Punjabi Singers who hv NO local Standi & have political ambitions

Dese Farm Acts r d LONG outstanding demands of Farmers now met but opposed for political reasons

Let’s fight it out wid reasons & reach out to REAL FARMERS @narendramodi

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Raising issues like CAA, Article 370, Hindu-Sikh proves POLITICS on d shoulders of innocent farmers

Let’s fight so dat poor farmers aren’t cheated again by @INCIndia led sinister plan

Let real farmers earn more wid new #FarmLaws

#JaiHind
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More from Farmer protest

Do read this thread. 🙏
Since Farmers protest, Troll Army has been hyperactive digging out old and unrelated vidoes/images and linking it to Farmers protest to demean the protesters. Just like they did for CAA/NRC protesters in Dec-Feb.
Here are a few #AltNewsFactCheck
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A photo that predates both the farmers' protest and the introduction of agricultural reform ordinances approved in June was falsely shared as Muslim man disguised as Sikh to participate in the agitation. #AltNewsFactCheck
2/n
https://t.co/y37jn81Gw9


A photo of an elderly woman participating in a farmers' protest in Punjab in October was shared with the false claim that she is 'Shaheen Bagh Dadi' Bilkis Bano who was present in the recent farmers' protest. #AltNewsFactCheck 3/n

https://t.co/VU524UGTw4


An old video of few Sikhs along with Pakistani fans raising pro-Pak, Khalistan chants during cricket World Cup match in UK is viral as farmers' protest. BJP's Priti Gandhi, Punit Agwaral shared this and later took it down. #AltNewsFactCheck 4/n
https://t.co/i2f2myjfxK


A photograph shot during anti-CAA protests in Shaheen Bagh in February has been shared with the false claim that it shows 'Hathras Bhabhi' at farmers' protest. #AltNewsFactCheck 5/n
https://t.co/ucZ6s44j5U

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