Farming and the Law

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NPPC supports finding a legislative solution, like the Eats Act, to Proposition 12 to prevent state and local governments from interfering with the production of agricultural products in other states,” the NPPC said in a public statement.

Anti-competitive agreements between companies where competitors fix prices or divide markets, which extends to concerted practices. A concerted practice may exist where there is informal co-operation between competitors, for example, where sensitive commercial information may be exchanged or conveyed. This includes, in particular, any information that may reveal a business's future commercial behaviour, such as its pricing or marketing strategy. We want to ensure that environmental standards are maintained and will look to use the most effective mechanism to ensure that happens. In his speech, Modi said he was repealing the laws because he lamented that the government had been “unable to convince farmers”. While the majority of EU cross compliance rules are replicated in our regulatory baseline, we are aware of some gaps in protections . Where there are gaps, we are taking an evidence led approach to decide on the most effective ways to achieve our environmental goals. On Friday, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait said the farmers would still not disband their protest camps and rallies until the act of repealing the laws had been carried out in parliament. He also emphasised that more than 700 farmers had died over the past year during the protests against the farm laws.Take a look at this post: https://defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2023/03/27/making-the-rules-for-farming-easier-to-find/ At last, all of our hard work paid off … I salute the farmer brothers who were martyred in this battle,” said Tikait. The Secretary of State refers the matter to a committee of independent experts, the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE). ACRE considers the potential risks to human health or the environment, including factors such as toxicity, allergenicity, and the impact of any possible transfer of novel genes to other organisms. We have decided to repeal all three farm laws. We will start the constitutional process to repeal all the three laws in the parliament session that starts at the end of this month,” said Modi, in a surprise announcement.

The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020: It seeks to give freedom to farmers to sell their produce outside the notified APMC market yards (mandis). This is aimed at facilitating remunerative prices through competitive alternative trading channels. Farmers will not be charged any cess or levy for sale of their produce under this Act.Thanks for your question. We'll talk more about this later this year, but we are aware of gaps between cross-compliance standards and domestic regulatory requirements on watercourses, soils and hedgerows. overnight - you must stop burning one hour before sunset and wait until sunrise the following morning before you start burning again More than two thirds of England is farmed and this plan paves the way for those who manage the land to produce healthy food alongside other vital benefits, such as carbon storage, clean water, reduced flood risk, thriving wildlife and beautiful landscapes for everyone to enjoy. At Natural England we look forward to working with this plan to breathe life into England’s Nature Recovery Network, including through the very exciting ambition to create large scale Landscape Recovery Areas. Narendra Modi has announced he will repeal three contentious farm laws that prompted a year of protests and unrest in India, in one of the most significant concessions made by his government.