ALL THE FACTS ABOUT 3 FARMS BILL 2020
What are the 3 Farm Acts, 2020 Introduced on September 14th?
- The Farmers Products Trage and Commerce {Promotion and Facilitation} Act, 2020
- The Farmers {Empowerment and Protection} Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020
- The Essential Commodities {Amendment} Act, 2020
Act 1
This act allows farmers to sell their produce anywhere in the country without any geographical barrier. There will be no inter-state inter-district barriers farmer could sell his produce anywhere within India.
Private mandis will be established, which would lead to the abolishing of intermediaries within the country, and farmers could sell their products directly to consumers. And it has no link with the abolishing of licensed middlemen/intermediaries or the govt mandis.
Example: ABC company, comes in producing of flour, so initially, we{institutional buyers} would go and purchase wheat from intermediaries from govt mandis at a price and cost that they would provide us and then send grain from process {grinding} to make the final product and sell in markets now, We could buy wheat directly from the farmers at comparatively cheaper rates than the mandis and process wheat and get the final product, which is flour, and sell at much less expensive rates, which would benefit farmers, producer { ABC company} as well as consumers.
Act2 {contract farming }
This ACT would allow farmers to come in pre-produce agreements with agri-firms/companies, exporters, or any buyer to produce a crop at prices which will be pre-agreed.
There is nothing in this act related to MSP{minimum sale price}.
Example: ABC company, went and got into a contract with farmers for wheat, and at a specific price and at time of harvest if there is deflation in price due to overproduce, it would eventually lead to loss to farmers but, with this act there no scope of such happening and would help make farmers and produce completely risk-free as the contract will be made. and Again, because there will be no middlemen so, the price of the deal would be much higher and profitable for farmers.
Act3 {HOARDING}
Hoarding means the practice of collecting or accumulate food or grains. In India, it was illegal to keep goods or produce more than the limit set by the government
Now; the limit for storing the goods will be abolished for intermediaries in govt mandis as well as for private mandis, and economic agents can stock food freely with no fear of being prosecuted like earlier.
Example: ABC company, is an agent or middlemen bought large quantitative stock from farmers and saved it or hoards it and sell it in a more profitable situation in future.