NEW DELHI– Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured farmers on Saturdaythat reforms in the agrarian sector were aimed at helping them as thousandsof farmers continued protests against three new laws to overhaulprocurement and sale of produce.
“Reforms will help draw investment in agriculture and benefit farmers,” hesaid at the annual meeting of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerceand Industry in New Delhi.
“The aim of the all government reforms is to make farmers’ prosperous,” hesaid adding that private sector must help improve the country’s agriculturesector.
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But protesting farmers in northern states fear the new legislation willeventually dismantle India’s regulated markets and stop the government frombuying wheat and rice at guaranteed prices, leaving them at the mercy ofprivate buyers.
