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Agriculture Bill: Claims and Objections

  The Union Cabinet passed three ordinances related to agriculture in June 2020, the Agricultural Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion Facility) Ordinance, 2020, Price Assurance of Farmers (Empowerment and Protection), Contracts and Agricultural Services Ordinance, 2020, and Essential Commodities (Amendment). Ordinance, 2020 | These three ordinances were brought during the lockdown  continued in the covid-19  and they are expected to be enacted in the current monsoon session of Parliament. In spite of all the opposition, the Central Government has passed all the three bills in the Lok Sabha for improvement in the agriculture sector. However, the Rajya Sabha is facing hurdles in the way of making the law of these three bills. What will be the far-reaching consequences of these ordinances and how much will this affect the farmers and in what form, I am not in a position to tell you clearly at this time. The result of this will be known only in the coming time, but we want ...