The PM, in his address, had appealed to farmers to end the stir. However, upping the ante, farmer groups retorted that the protest will be withdrawn only when the Centre formulates a law on MSP.
Experts, stakeholders divided on government’s move; implementation not up to the mark, say some, could have opened new channels of trading for farmers, say others.
Farmer groups welcome the decision but have said the demand for a statutory guarantee of remunerative prices for all agricultural produce for all farmers remains unfulfilled.
Constitutional process of repealing farm laws to be completed in Winter session of Parliament.
The country has often been described as a global back office. Now its agricultural exports suggest that it might become a key food source for the world. Fixing water supplies will be vital.
In an attempt to make peace with farmers amid the ongoing protests over farm laws, Sitharaman proposes an increase in agricultural credit target to ₹16.5 lakh crore in FY22.
The Bharat bandh on Tuesday, December 8 went of peacefully. Fortune India travelled across NCR in order to photograph the progress of the bandh, and also to chronicle the mood in the protest sites.
