ALL ABOUT 3 FARM BILLS, AND WHY ARE FARMERS ARE CONCERNED
                     ALL ABOUT 3 FARM BILLS, 
AND WHY ARE FARMERS 
ARE CONCERNED
INTRODUCTION
• Farmers across India have taken to 
streets to protest against the three 
farm reform bills passed by the 
Parliament in the monsoon session 
amid protests by opposition 
parties 
Source: The Indian Express
THREE BILLS 
• The three bills are: 
– The Farmers’ Produce Trade And 
Commerce (Promotion And 
Facilitation) Bill
– The Farmers (Empowerment and 
Protection) Agreement on Price 
Assurance and Farm Services Bill
– The Essential Commodities 
(Amendment) Bill.
Source: Republic World
SAD PULLED OUT OF NDA
• Following Harsimrat’s resignation, the 
SAD also pulled out of the BJP-led NDA 
alliance.
• It is because of the Centre's stubborn 
refusal to give statutory legislative 
guarantees to protect the assured 
marketing of farmers' crops at 
minimum support price (MSP).
Source: IndiaTv
PRESIDENT SIGNED THE BILLS
• The President gave his assent to the 
three contentious agricultural Bills. 
• The President signed the Farmers' 
Produce Trade and Commerce Bill, 
2020, and The Farmers Agreement on 
Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 
2020, into law on September 24 and 
the Essential Commodities Bill on 
September 26.
Source: DNA India
FARMER’S PROTEST
• India has been witnessing nationwide 
protests by farmers over the Bills with 
Punjab and Haryana also witnessing rail 
and road blockades. 
• The farmers are saying that these farm 
reforms would pave a way for the 
dismantling of the minimum support 
price system, leaving them at the 
“mercy” of big companies.
Source: Mid day
WHAT ARE THE THREE BILLS?
BILL 1
• The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 
2020, seeks to give freedom to farmers to sell their produce outside the 
notified APMC market yards (mandis). 
• The government says this is aimed at facilitating remunerative prices through 
competitive alternative trading channels.
Source: RajRAS
WHAT ARE THE THREE BILLS?
BILL 2
• The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance 
and Farm Services Act, 2020, seeks to give farmers the right to enter into a 
contract with agribusiness firms, processors, wholesalers, exporters, or large 
retailers for the sale of future farming produce at a pre-agreed price.
Source: RajRAS
WHAT ARE THE THREE BILLS?
BILL 3
• The Essential Commodities 
(Amendment) Act, 2020, seeks to 
remove commodities like cereals, 
pulses, oilseeds, onion, and potato from 
the list of essential commodities and 
will do away with the imposition of 
stock holding limits.
Source: Bankersadda
WHY ARE FARMERS WORRIED?
• Mandis bring in revenue for state 
government and these laws will reduce their 
relevance.
• There is hardly any regulation outside the 
mandis and no grievance redressal 
mechanism yet.
• Farmers are worried that this will end 
minimum support prices regime and even 
the middlemen will be affected.
• Farmers will have the freedom to choose 
where they want to sell their produce but 
concerns are about the lack of bargaining 
power with big companies.
Source: The New Yorker
WHAT PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI 
SAID?
• Hailing the contribution of Indian farmers in 
Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative, Prime 
Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that 
they would benefit from the new 
agriculture-related Bills once these become 
laws.
• The government hopes that the new laws will provide 
farmers with more choice, with competition leading to 
better prices, as well as ushering in a surge of private 
investment in agricultural marketing, processing and 
infrastructure.
Source: IndiaTv