A much better resource is at - https://old.reddit.com/r/india/comments/k1hfyi/farm_bills_2020_protest/ https://old.reddit.com/r/india/comments/k1hfyi/farm_bills

A much better resource is at - https://old.reddit.com/r/india/comments/k1hfyi/farm_bills_2020_protest/ https://old.reddit.com/r/india/comments/k1hfyi/farm_bills_20... > In short, the bills aim to deregulate farming, which is good for the consumer, Not necessarily. Corporates are not known to be benevolent and will act like cartels to dictate the market price. This bill will endanger India's food security for the poor as deregulation means that corporates will now increasingly dictate the price. Farmers will suffer because this bill is a huge push to corporatise agriculture through contract farming, in the guise of "reforms". Repeating what I said elsewhere - In both the US and Europe, contract farming has seen the consolidation of farms under few corporates. Many indian political parties understandably do not want that to happen in india too. - 1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/24/farmland https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/24/farmland - Contract farming as a means of ushering in corporatisation in agriculture: https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/fast-forward-to-corporatisation/article32880281.ece https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/fast-forward-to-co... The new farm bills have now opened the gateway to corporates to take over indian farmlands, which will in time, invariably allow foreign corporates to take over them and control India's food security.