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India's Farm Laws feat. Kaushik Basu, Mahendra Dev, and Sudha Narayanan

The seventh event in the Envisioning India series, "India's Farm Laws", featured Kaushik Basu, Mahendra Dev, and Sudha Narayanan. The discussion was moderated by Professor Jay Shambaugh, with an introduction by Dr. Ajay Chhibber. In September 2020, the Indian Parliament passed three farm acts: The Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020; Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020. The laws allow farmers to sell outside regulated government markets, allow contractual farming, and remove cereals, onion, potato and oil seed from the essential commodities list. The laws ostensibly designed to modernize the farm sector have generated huge protests in India which led to violence on India’s Republic Day on January 26 and continue unabated. Farm Associations and many experts consider them anti-farmer whereas others think these reforms are necessary to move Indian agriculture forward. India’s farm sector provides only 15% of India’s GDP but provides livelihood for almost 50% of the population. The stakes are indeed high. Our distinguished panel of experts debate the laws, place them in a broader context of India’s agricultural sector problems and suggest possible solutions. Sign up for the IIEP mailing list here: http://bit.ly/IIEPsignup