Corporates lobbied from 2017 to create controversial Farm Laws in India
The Reporters' Collective | In Farmers’ Name
https://www.reporters-collective.in/projects/in-farmers-name
The Collective’s investigation illuminates the corporate influence on the agricultural policies of the Union government. It uncovers how an NRI with no agricultural expertise managed to capture Niti Aayog's attention and got himself, and the people he picked, to be part of the task force formed by Niti Aayog to find ways to double farmers’ income. The investigation thrust open the doors of the task force behind which Adani Group candidly advocated the removal of restrictions on corporate companies hoarding agricultural commodities, which become a law two years later and trigged farmers’ protest.
These laws were repelled after year long protest of farmers. But now chronology of how these laws came into being is found out by Reporters Collective.