Context: While the traders have been the Kanhaiyalals of agricultural yore, encouraging inefficient marketing, it is astonishing that farmers are speaking up to protect traders’ interests.
Evolution of Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC): Outcomes of The APMC Act of the 1950s -
Arguments in favour of the farm laws
Conclusion: The farmers are agitating against the new reforms not really because that they have been “misled” as part of a “political conspiracy”, but it is due to the way the MSP scheme works in certain states, and the way “big” farmer-trader relationships have worked out in such states.