Farm bill 2020

 What is farm bill 2020?

India is dominating as an agricultural country. More than 70% of its population is directly or indirectly involved in agricultural activities. These farmers are doing hard work and feeding the entire nation but the saddening fact is that they are knotted in the fetters of starvation and poverty. In 2020 the central government passed 3 new bills for the betterment of farmers and the agriculture sector. 

1. These bills are the Farmers Produce and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill 2020, 
2. Farmers Agreement (Empowerment and Protection) on Price Assurance 
3. Farm Services Bill 2020 and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill 2020.  

 

The government said that these bills are a boon for the farmers. These bills make structural changes in the agriculture sector and also encourage corporate investments in the agriculture ecosystem to make agriculture more profitable for farmers. Which change the life of farmers but farmers and the state government are opposing these bills. Farmers are against these bills and they are protesting against the bills and the government. Punjab and Haryana are those states in which 70% of the population is dependent on farming for their lives.

 

What are the benefits of the Farmer Bill 2020?

 

1. The farm bill forecast a track for farmers to sell their crops in the open market. Before the bill, Farmers are fixed to sell their produce only in the APMC mandi`s but after the bill, farmers can sell their products to anyone and anywhere and where they can get a higher price. 
2. MSP is a minimum support price, Government decides the rate for the crops so anyone can sell their crops to the government mandi at MSP pricing.
3. Before the bill, the government fixed the rate for the broker who deals with farmers and consumers. Government fixes the dealer rate of 6% for the total sale of the crop. But dealers are smart and they buy the total crop or produce of farmers at normal prices and sell to the consumers at higher prices. In that situation, the only dealer gets the profit neither farmer get the profit, not the consumer. After the bill farmer sells their produce outside of the mandi`s or to anyone.
4. There will be no APMC market fee on transactions in such areas.
5. APMC will also continue its functioning.
6. Farmers have choices to sell their produce.       
7. These farm bills empower the farmers to sell their produce directly to the corporate sector or exporter buying in bulk from the farmers.
8. The farm bill doesn't affect the MSP and MSP based procurement system will continue as per new bills and farmers can sell their crop product in mandi on the existing MSP.

 

 What is the motive of the government towards Farm Bill 2020?

 

The government has passed three bills to boost the agriculture sector and double the farmer's income by 2020. It is thought by the government that the freeing of the agriculture sector will help in better pricing due to competitiveness in the market. When the farmers sell their products to corporates directly so it will induce the corporate sector to invest in agriculture and they will also help the farmers better access to modern technology and by this farmers will be benefited. Farmers also get financial help to grow crops.

 

Why Farmers are protesting against the Agriculture Bill 2020?

·       Farmers are tensed about getting MSP for their produce as of New Farm Bill 2020. They are not sure if they are getting MSP or not

·       Farmers also fear that large retailers and the corporate sector could dominate the agriculture sector with money power and other sources.

·        Farmers doubt that if the trade move towards the alternative platform and then the APMC mandi may become unavailable and have to shut down in the future. And then there will be the monopoly of the corporate sector. Farmers fear that mandi will become useless just like BSNL, and MTNL when Airtel and Vodafone came into the market.   

·       Farmers also fear what would happen to the deal when the crops are not growing as crops the corporate sector wanted. It will be canceled or remain. Who pays the farmers for the poor harvest? And they also fear that if the companies cancel the deal after the contract.

·       The price assurance bill doesn't prescribe any mechanism for price fixation.

There is no other thing when the corporate houses could lead to farmer`s exploitation

College life- an amazing stop of life!

College life is known as one of the most memorable years of all lives. It is different from school life.  It teaches you the tough skills of life; discipline, friendship, sincerity, dedication, struggles, experiences, joy, and commitment. College life exposes us to new experiences and things that we were not known earlier. College life is quite important. For me, it is different because I am a shy guy at my school and I am hesitating to do extra-curricular activities and interact with my fellow mates. College life for some people is breaking the restrictions means enjoying life to the fullest and partying hard. While for others it is time to get serious and focus on their career and study hard for a better future. 

When I passed my intermediate and I was thinking to join College and I was thinking to improve myself, participate in extra-curricular activities, become confident and composed.

We think that life is easy in college life but as we think but it does not as much we expected but we have to learn and adapt as per the situation people. 

We go through a lot of changes when we enter college life. It is a big transition if we compare it with school life.

It is a place where we get a little more mature than we were during school time. It is an opportunity for a person to take life the way he wants.

In college, you make some friends and sometimes you lose them. Sometimes unbreakable bonds could form in college.

There are lots of memories that can be formed in college. The most common memory of every college student would be walking into college and pranking and making fun of each other. We miss the time spent in the college canteen as it is the hub of every student to eat and gossip with their friends.

We are enjoying getting bunk the class and moving here and there on the college campus.

This thing is very annoying for the teachers but some students make some unusual sounds while the teachers were teaching in the class. And the best part of my college is that when we were eating lunch with my friends without knowing him.

The enjoyments during the annual festivals or welcome parties and DJ night are very pleasing. We are enjoying in that to dance over there and at that party with friends, it is even enjoyed more.

I am right now thinking about the past 4 years of my college life which I enjoyed a lot. And that time was coming when I was about to leave my college life.   

The last day of college is very emotional. It is unbearable to say goodbye to best friends. Everyone goes his separate ways after college life.

It is difficult to finally decide on a meet-up plan because everyone gets busy in his own life. However, college life is an amazing experience that cannot be forgotten.