Parakala Prabhakar: gives a round up of the issues surrounding the farmers agitation. He calls on the government to reset its policies relating to farmers, which culminated in the rushing the farm laws through parliamanet without proper consultation with stakeholders. It needs to address the agrarian question comprehensively. He spoke of the All India Kisan Sabha which formed in 1939, and that its resolutions then has still not been address.
The SC order in the agitation case: set up a committee: SC order on the farm laws https://farmer.gov.in/sccommittee/PDF/21097_2020_31_19_25372_Order_12-Jan-2021.pdf
Portal of Committee on Farm Laws Appointed by the Supreme Court
https://farmer.gov.in/sccommittee/index.html
Refering to the NITI Aayog report -- Doubling Farmers' Income https://niti.gov.in/writereaddata/files/document_publication/DOUBLING%20FARMERS%20INCOME.pdf , he said that hope that the target to double farm incomeon the back of reduction of farm emplyment from 34% 25%, will not address the agrarian issue.
Agrarian Reform as done is other countries in the east, show the right path for Indian agriculture and not the agricultural model in the west which seems to be the model of the new gen economic planners.
He referred to Agrarian Reform As Unfinished Business: A collection of 62 essays on agrarian reform in Asia by Wolf Ladejinsky (English) https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/761501468765882964/agrarian-reform-as-unfinished-business-the-selected-papers-of-wolf-ladejinsky
Ladejinsky's works reflect his concern with the redistribution of land to submarginal farmers, tenants, sharecroppers, and landless laborers. redistribution credit.. japan etc.. small owner cultivator.