Ground zero: Noise over mandis drowns out support for corporate silos

The first of a two-part series finds out why farmers in Punjab are spooked by the new legislation

Topics
Indian Farmers | Punjab farmers | wholesale mandis

Sai Manish  |  Moga/Khanna 

It’s early morning at the 200,000-tonne Adani wheat silo at Dabra village in Punjab’s Moga district, and a group of elderly farmers is getting ready for another day of agitations after spending the night at the protest site.

Elsewhere in the state, farmers have been demonstrating at other Adani-run wheat silos, Reliance retail chains and private road toll booths, demanding the abolition of The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act that was recently pushed through Parliament by the Modi government. In a sense, the Adani silo is what the ...

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First Published: Wed, October 07 2020. 06:05 IST
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