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Here Are the Reforms India's Farmers Really Need - Kavita Kuruganti 1-12-2021 https://thewire.in/agriculture/here-are-the-reforms-indias-farmers-really-need 

Our reality is that farmers displaced from agriculture are not getting absorbed into other sectors due to a lack of opportunities there. What we need is a reforms agenda that incorporates a ‘sustainable livelihoods’ perspective from the bottom up. 

We need  a basket of modalities for making the guaranteed MSP, based on improved cot estimates. a reality for all farmers.

The basket of interventions needed would include expanded procurement; smarter market interventions by government agencies; a re-designed warehouse receipt scheme; price deficit payments, especially for perishables but vastly different from the way Madhya Pradesh designed its Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana; a legal mandate that price-bidding can begin only at MSP; investment in farmer-controlled Farmer Produce Organisations (FPOs) that are considered as sellers and not traders in the market; the widespread adoption of agro-ecology to reduce the cost of cultivation and so on.

A key intervention is about predictable export-import policy decisions from before the sowing season till the end of marketing season for any commodity. 

Further:  More Mandis, infra close to farmers, fees collected at Mandi to be ploughed back into infra, Direct marketing between farmers and end-consumers, invest in FPOs and community based institutions,  not to make them into aggregators of big capital. and treat FPOs as sellers not traders.. 

Other articles relating to Farmers Agitation: http://emeets.lnwr.in/index.php/farmers-agitation-against-black-laws 

‘A victory for democracy’: Sitaram Yechury on repeal of farm laws T.K. RAJALAKSHMI Frontline Print edition : December 17, 2021  https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/interview-sitaram-yechury-on-farm-laws-repeal-a-victory-for-democracy/article37718450.ece 

Dr Ashok Dhawale: ‘Historic first victory in unprecedented struggle’ ANUPAMA KATAKAM Frontline Print edition : December 17, 2021 https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/interview-dr-ashok-dhawale-historic-first-victory-in-unprecedented-struggle/article37725608.ece 

How the battle was won: Farmers' protests force the Narendra Modi-led government to repeal controversial farm laws T.K. RAJALAKSHMI Frontline Print edition : December 17, 2021 https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/how-the-battle-was-won/article37733400.ece?homepage=true

Rakesh Tikait | Kisan Ekta Morcha on 1st Dec. 2021 

The rumour is that the farmers are going back home.  This is not true. 

As of 1st dec 2021, one issue that is solved. ie the issue of the three black laws.  On the electricity bill also , tlak with the government is going on since 11 months. 

The MSP issue was spoken about at the same time. We need a law guaranteeing MSP.   So this one issue is not solved. Therefore it is not a new issue as portrayed in the mainstream media. In 2011 a committeee, in which current PM who was then CM of Gujarat,  had in its report has said that MSP should be guaranteed in law. There is no need to a new committee, as the PM was in the earlier committee. 

They are saying that a Committee will be formed. We say you make the law, and under it you set up the committee.

Others pending issues arise from the incidents arising in the intervening period - ie

around 300 tractors have been damaged,  and even today around 150 tractors are in different police stations in Delhi. 

In Haryana around 55000 people have cases against them. what will happen to them?  The cases should be withdrawn. In Up also there are cases, In Uttarakhand also. and in the rest of the country. 

At the talk there was an issue of a committee to handle different issues, in order to obviate the need for such mobilisation whenever issues like pesticides availability.

 what should be on the Kissan Credit card, the leakages in the payments, 

A decision on future course of action will be taken by the SKM on the 4th. Each organisations will consult and look after their constituents. 

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/government-seeks-five-names-of-representatives-from-skm-to-be-on-panel-on-msp/articleshow/88015248.cms  BKU leader Rakesh Tikait said, "We want the government to have a meeting with us on the issues of legal guarantee to MSP, and the farmers who died, before our meeting on December 4. Our agitation is not going to end. The government has not accepted our demands yet." ..

There was, however, no consensus on this within the group of 32 unions from Punjab as many among them insisted not to vacate the sites until there is, at least, an agreement on withdrawal of cases against farmers.
Representatives of farmer unions believe that if they leave the protest sites without concrete assurance on this, the states and railways won’t withdraw such cases and farmers will have to take rounds to local courts for years. They, therefore, want to go by the consensus decision and would like to wait for the SKM’s announcement on their next course of action and mode of protests after its meeting at Singhu Border on December 4.

 The SKM had on November 21 written to the Prime Minister urging him to immediately resume talks with unions on the farmers’ six demands including legal guarantee to procurement of crops at MSP. The other demands in the list include withdrawal of Electricity Amendment Bill, scrapping of provisions of fines for stubble burning in the Commission for Air Quality Management law, withdrawal of cases against farmers, sacking and arrest of junior home minister Ajay Kumar Mishra over the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, and compensation to kin of around 700 farmers who died during the protests and allotment of a site at Singhu Border to set up a memorial for them. 

95% people will benefit from MSP. Nov 26, 2021 Satya Hindi सत्य हिन्दी 26 Nov 2021

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