Corporate companies will buy all these goods from farmers at lower prices. After that they will store it for a long time. | Sharad Pawar
If the price of a horticultural crop goes up by 100 per cent or the price of perishable goods goes up by more than 50 per cent, the government will have the right to intervene. Sharad Pawar said that this matter is a matter of concern.
Mumbai: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed readiness to discuss with the farmers in the all-party meeting, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar has given some advice to the Central Government on agricultural laws. Sharad Pawar has expressed these views through Twitter. (Sharad Pawar new twit serries on Farm laws)
In this, Sharad Pawar highlighted both the positive and negative aspects of the Agriculture Act. Raising storage limits on grains, pulses, onions, potatoes and oilseeds is likely to lead to black market. Corporate companies will buy all these goods from farmers at lower prices. After that they will store it for a long time. Therefore, the prices of these goods are likely to go up, Sharad Pawar tried to draw attention to this.
Sharad Pawar also said that he was worried about the amendment in the Essential Commodities Act. According to the amendment, if the price of a horticultural crop goes up by 100 per cent or the price of perishable goods goes up by more than 50 per cent, the government will have the right to intervene. Sharad Pawar said that this matter is a matter of concern.
Reform is a continuous process and no one would argue against the reforms in the APMCs or Mandi System, a positive argument on the same does not mean that it is done to weaken or demolish the system.
– Sharad Pawar (PawarSpeaks) January 30, 2021
Stock piling limits have been removed on food grain, pulses, onion, potato, oilseeds etc.
It may lead to apprehensions that Corporates may purchase commodities at lower rates and stock pile and sell at higher prices to consumers.– Sharad Pawar (PawarSpeaks) January 30, 2021
Reform is a continuous process and no one would argue against the reforms in the APMCs or Mandi System, a positive argument on the same does not mean that it is done to weaken or demolish the system.
– Sharad Pawar (PawarSpeaks) January 30, 2021
‘No opposition to positive reforms in market committees’
Improvement is an ongoing process. So no one will oppose market committee or market reforms. Sharad Pawar also underlined that having a positive discussion in this regard does not mean that the system will be weakened or destroyed.
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