A Need of New Farm Acts: Case Study of Sangamner Block

Abstract

India has been facing severe agrarian crisis. The crisis becomes darker since the inception of the New Economic Policy in 1991. Agrarian crisis has several facets and volatile agriculture market is one of them. India has wide network of regulated agricultural markets named as APMCs and farmers rely on these markets as a site of procurement. Recently government of India passed New Farm Acts in the visage of ordinance but farmers have been painstakingly opposing these Acts, farmers believe that these acts are corporate leaned and will rule out both MSPs and APMC markets. The evidences too confirmed that farmers have been opting APMC markets as site of procurement over private traders since these markets are regulatory whereas private traders or private markets have potential to deceive the farmer! Farmers are aware about on-going protest at various borders of Delhi about New Farm Acts. Despite farmers haven’t been getting promised MSP at APMC markets, farmers still advocating APMC markets since it guarantees the payment. Majority of the farmers asserted that they are not going to favour these acts since it won’t be beneficial for them and also rule out the promised MSP. There should be healthy competition between APMC markets and Private markets, unlike APMCs private markets should be regulated by the government.