Vivek's Commentary

 In this session, I am trying to analyze the ordinal: The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance, 2020 passed by Lok Sabha on 17th September and passed by Rajyasabh on 20th September. What are the key issues related to this ordinal? Let's discuss this.  1) The definition of Farmers discussed in the ordinal: Ordinal defines farmer as  Where NSS 70th round defines agriculture household as :  An agricultural household for this survey was defined as a household receiving some value of produce more than Rs.3000/- from agricultural activities (e.g., cultivation of field crops, horticultural crops, fodder crops, plantation, animal husbandry, poultry, fishery, piggery, bee-keeping, vermiculture, sericulture etc.) and having at least one member selfemployed in agriculture either in the principal status or in subsidiary status during last 365 days.  In 59th round definition was:  ‘Situation Assessment Survey of Farmers’, conducted in NSS