As part of the Atmanirbhar Bharat economic reforms package of 2020, certain agricultural commodities were removed from the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, reducing market distortions.21 Minister of Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar described farming as a ‘business’, saying that: Farmers … are perhaps the only producers who neither decide the price of their produce nor sell it to the buyer of their choice. Moreover, they are tied to all sorts of rules and regulations. If you take any other business, the producer is free to produce his goods, sell to whoever he wants, and at any place of his
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