INDIA’S CONTRACT FARMING LAWS 2020 FROM ECONOMIC JUSTICE PERSPECTIVE: A BRIEF ANALYSIS
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Farm laws, Economic Justice, John Rawls, contract farmingAbstract
India’s central legislature recently, enacted three laws, popularly known as ‘Agro-reform Laws, 2020’ or ‘Farm Laws, 2020’. I will be called it as Argo-Reform legal Trilogy. This Trilogy is enacted with intention to promote agricultural growth globally and to benefit the farmers, by promoting and facilitating agricultural produce through inter-alia, infusion of capital from private sector. My focal point for analysis was whether an invitation to capitalist economy will bring economic justice to the farmers’ community or class? My interest was to uncover the conceptional aspect behind this codification. As per my understanding, this legal trilogy consists of all the factors aiming for global growth and development of India’s farm sector by promoting and inviting the private sector investment into farming sector. Contract farming is not new to the India’s soil. Many Indian farmers have been into it much prior to the enactment of the aforesaid statutes however, this is for the first time, the contract-farming has been so legislatively dressed-up. Therefore, I wanted to explore on the idea that whether the ‘contract farming laws’ could actually be the road to justice for those seekers of economic justice? And if yes, then, to what extent? The main purpose of this paper is to understand and to analyse the intersectional relation between the laws of contract farming, 2020 and the economic justice rooted in the constitution. The paper shall draw on observations based on doctrinal research with the help of primary and secondary data inter-alia, international conventions, academicals theories, policies, statutory materials and court decisions. This research shall contribute in understanding the effectiveness and limitations in implementing the agro statutes with economic justice standpoint made so far.
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