![]() ![]() The timing of their laying siege to the national capital – well after marketing of paddy and sowing of wheat – and ability to stay put for at least the next few weeks could well work to the protestors’ advantage. This “free time” for now, especially with Punjab and Haryana farmers, is something that the Modi government may not have fully anticipated. UP farmers are, therefore, busy now in harvesting cane, which is their main cash crop. Sugar mills have really started crushing operations for the new 2020-21 season only after Diwali. This relative leeway in wheat may not be available for sugarcane growers in neighbouring western Uttar Pradesh. Punjab and Haryana farmers generally plant their wheat before mid-November. It means they have some free time for agitation, which wasn’t the case till 15-20 days ago. Most farmers have also done their first round of urea application and irrigation, which takes place 2-3 weeks after sowing. In Punjab and Haryana, not only has harvesting of the kharif paddy been completed, even sowing of wheat for the new rabi season is virtually over. The unions predictably declined the offer.įrom a bargaining standpoint, the farmers are probably better placed at the current moment. The leaders were asked to nominate members to the proposed panel, which would also have agriculture experts and officials. ![]() At Tuesday’s talks that three Union ministers held with 35 farm union leaders, the Centre merely offered the constitution of a committee to discuss the contentious provisions of the three laws. On Monday, the Prime Minister himself, at a public rally in Varanasi, denounced the opponents of the new Central farm laws as spreading misinformation and sowing fear among farmers.
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