India’s edible oil industry calls for agricultural reforms:

India’s edible oil industry body, Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA) while expressing its appreciation of the Prime Minister’s announcement of repealing the three farm laws, pointed out that reforms are necessary for the Indian agriculture sector to become competitive and improve farmers income. The association hoped that agriculture reforms should continue to be implemented in a more politically acceptable manner. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the government has decided to repeal the three farm laws, which were at the center of protests by farmers for the past year, and appealed to the protesting farmers to return home. “With hardened opposition stand of the farmers for whose benefits these farm laws were designed it was really magnanimous on part of our Prime Minister to announce its withdrawal,” said Atul Chaturvedi President, SEA of India. Chaturvedi further added that the agriculture sector is crying for massive reforms if it has to become ...