Free markets are beneficial but only when agriculture/farming is a large scale business and agri as an occupation doesn't affect the livelihoods of landless agri labourers. After all, they are also part of the economy and their livelihood should be saved until India is industrialized to bear the labour force. The infrastructure for so-called farm gate procurement must be ensured with good logistics, storage and accessibility to the market. Photo by Nandhu Kumar on Unsplash If a farmer with less than 2 hectares of land (80% of the farmers have less than 2 hectares of land according to Agricultural senses 2015–16) needs to sell his produce in his farm gate who will visit there for purchase? Can he expect a large exporter or a food processing company procuring it through agri executives bargaining in their fields? Only a middle man will procure it and sells it to a large procurer. Already farmers are selling their produce to whomever they wish. Only traders need to sell it in APMCs
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