Watershed moment for agriculture, like 1991 all over again

#ThePrintUninterrupted
The Modi government is leveraging the crisis created by the coronavirus outbreak to open up the agricultural economy, said Infosys expert on agriculture at ICRIER & former head of the Agricultural Costs & Prices Commission Ashok Gulati in a wide-ranging interview with ThePrint’s National Affairs editor Jyoti Malhotra. Three steps – amending the Essential Commodities Act, reforming the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committees and allowing contract farming – could unleash the animal spirits in agriculture, just like what former prime minister PV Narasimha Rao & finance minister Manmohan Singh did for industry in 1991.