Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that farmers in India now have the power to sell their produce wherever they get the best price and to anyone they want, in a reference to the recently-passed farming bills in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
In his monthly radio programme “Mann Ki Baat”, the prime minister also spoke about removing the Agricultural Produce Market Committee or APMC in Maharashtra and said that it has helped the farmers of the state. He said farmers in Pune and Mumbai were running parallel markets. “It has a very flexible system and that too has evolved five-six years ago,” Modi said.
The prime minister further said farmers have suffered a lot due to the coronavirus pandemic, but that they have shown prowess to overcome this crisis. He called the agriculture sector the backbone of self-reliant India and said that if the farmers remained…
