The three now-repealed agriculture reforms aimed to modernise the sector by reducing dependency on middlemen. The government of India enacted it to give farmers the freedom to sell farm produce anywhere in the country, within APMC mandis or outside them. While their statement reflected a broader apprehension that the global trade agreements affect the local agriculture trade, the GoI’s position …
It was six years ago that Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 14, 2016, launched “eNam”, an electronic National Agriculture Market and a pan-India trading portal. “In a short span of six years, a radical change has been observed in the APMC operations and stakeholder preferences,” said Neelkamal Darbari, managing director, Small Farmers’ Agri-Business Consortium. During the pandemic, the eNAM …
