Regulating Agricultural Markets in India

The Orient BlackSwan 'Policy Studies' series is designed to address, investigate, and analyse public policy in the field of governance. In 2020, contentious agricultural market Acts, popularly known as the Farm Laws, were passed. This led to massive protests by farmers at Delhi's borders for over a year, at great cost to their lives and livelihood. Though repealed in 2021, these Acts need urgent analysis as they represented a fundamental reorientation of the existing regulatory framework into a package of 'reform' measures, aimed at opening up the domains of agricultural production, trade, and storage to the private sector. Regulating Agricultural Markets in India, the first book in our 'Policy Studies' series to examine agricultural market reforms, offers a comprehensive view of changing regulations at the state and the Union levels.