3/9/2023 0 Comments Right wing pro hindutva![]() Likewise the farmers are unanimous in rejecting contract farming and yet the government is pushing contract farming through these bills, ostensibly in the farmers’ interest. It is a bizarre case of government versus the people at large, not people versus people. The government here is not mediating in a conflict of interests among the people it has apparently its own interest which it is imposing on the people, on farmers and consumers alike, against which the farmers are agitating in the bitter cold of Delhi. The government economists defending the bills have been emphasising the benefits of such a shift. ![]() Such a shift is precisely what the agricultural bills aim to bring about. And yet it is imposing a shift on farmers from food to cash crops that would destroy the public distribution system. ![]() There is no conflict of interest among them that the government has to mediate between. But in India at present, the farmers have no desire to shift away from food crops, even as consumers want food crops to be supplied through the public distribution system. The government has to mediate between these conflicting interests. One comes across instances where consumers want growing of food crops for supplying to the public distribution system, while producers, lured by the apparent gains of shifting to cash crops, are reluctant to do so. Development Strategies in an Uncertain and Unequal World. ![]()
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