Farmers Protest in India 2020
The agriculture sector is one of the main producing sectors in India when the GDP data came only the agriculture sector was the only sector which has positive GDP. Now, the government has introduced 3 new bills for changing some rules in the agriculture sector. But the farmers are against these bills and from many days farmers are protesting for that. Many farmers protesting against these bills on tractors, that is why this protest is also called a Tractor protest. What needed to introduce new bills? Before these 3 bills, there was APMC ( Agricultural Produce & Livestock Market Committee ) act which was established early in the 1960s according to this act farmer used to sell their yield to the middlemen who has govt. approval licenses and then middlemen used to sell these yields to institutional buyers. The government has declared minimum prices for crops that middlemen can not buy crops below this rate called MSP (Minimum Support Price). APMC's drawback is that the...