Besides, restrictions on exports — via fixing a minimum price below which shipments couldn’t take place — were clamped from time to time. Equally telling is consumer food price inflation: It has been ruling below general retail inflation for 30 months running since September 2016. Going by the response to the Kisan Long March rallies in Mumbai and Delhi, “public opinion” is geared towards understanding things from a farmer’s — rather than the consumer’s — perspective. But what the Freedom to the Kisan law will do, above all, is bring back sentiment and liquidity into produce markets. Swaraj is the kisan’s birthright and he should have it.

Source: Indian Express March 13, 2019 19:07 UTC