
Bihar junked APMC Act in ’06, nonetheless it hasn’t benefited farmers
Bihar's farmers got the 'freedom of selections' in selling their manufacture 14 years in the past with the scrapping of the Agricultural Originate Advertising and marketing Committee (APMC) Act in the yell in 2006, nonetheless that has no longer yielded greater costs for them, an prognosis of tag traits sooner than and after the scrapping of the Act shows. The opening between farm harvest costs and MSP for 3 significant flowers - paddy, wheat and maize - has either widened or remained at the identical stage. What's extra, it looks that low harvest costs accept as true with caused agricultural wages in Bihar to remain suppressed as when compared with Punjab and Haryana and resulted in labour migration from the yell. The prognosis of farm harvest costs and MSP for wheat in Bihar from 1998-9...