Union minister Kailash Choudhary on Saturday said the three farm Bills gone by Parliament in the week will revolutionise the agriculture sector and help enhance farmers’ earnings and make them self-reliant.
Without naming the Congress, the Union minister of state for agriculture and farmers welfare hit out at it and said the party had promised similar steps in its election manifesto but was now opposing the Bills.
“The Modi government is taking steps to assist farmers. The Bills are brought in farmers’ interests, but the opposition is trying to make anarchy within the country,” Choudhary told reporters at the BJP office here.
Choudhary, who is from Rajasthan’s Barmer, said that farmers will now have a option to sell his crops anywhere within the country.
“Farmers are liberal to sell their produce wherever they get a far better price, he said.
It will enhance their earnings and make them self-reliant.
Accusing the Congress of misleading farmers, the minister said there’ll be agreement for crop and not for land within the proposed contract farming.
He said that the allow the agriculture sector under the NDA government is way quite that of under the erstwhile UPA government.
The Congress and other opposition parties have opposed the Farmer’s Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 and therefore the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020.
Parliament passed these Bills in the week