It doesn’t augur well for any country when its farmers start agitating & it goes on for 37 days without reaching a resolve.
It is farming that started civilisation lest the the ‘out of Africa’ journey of Homo Sapiens would have gone on for ever. The worlds’ economic movement started with farming. On the top of agricultural economy sit mfg. & service.
Indian farmers independently do not own huge land & there exists less than 5% among farmers who owns agricultural land of more than 10 hectors. So, it isn’t right to call the farmers’ protest as instigated by the rich farmers and the middlemen of the mandi.
While initiating major reforms in agriculture, the govt. did not take the farmers into confidence. The way in which these acts had come into being, have been very dubious. Autocratic decision making in which interest of the real stakeholder is jeopardised for the benefit of crony corporates, is a dangerous step.
Tens of thousands of farmers are on the road for more than a month, braving severe weather conditions (with people dying while agitating) should have been seen by the country’s leadership with concern & empathy. Defying the genuine request of the country’s food providers could only boomerang!
Hope, better sense would prevail
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