Farm bills: Vegetable traders at grain mandi stop work, protest in support of farmers

In Ambala, vegetable traders at grain mandi stop work as mark of protest in support of farmer over three agriculture reform bills.

"Don't know why government is damaging a good system running between vegetable traders and farmers.

Farmers were getting fair price.

Middlemen had their jobs and others were also employed in the system in the mandi.

Government is saying they are making farmers independent but they are already independent," said a vegetable trader.

The bills passed in Lok Sabha on September 17.

Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar to move Farmers' and Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 and Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020, in Rajya Sabha today.