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discodancer77 posted...

right now, the farmers are assured fair price for their crops because the buyer MUST buy (at the certain price) and in a certain time frame

The farmers are assured a minimum price from the APMCs, not a fair price. If the market rate is below the minimum price it's a "win" for farmers because the government spends an enormous amount of money that is desperately needed elsewhere to buy up surplus grain. If the market rate is above the minimum however the farmer must still accept the minimum price from the APMC, who then sells at a market rate meaning they and the wealthy politicians who control them get the profits. Either way it's a grossly inefficient system.

discodancer77 posted...

With the bills in place, the buyers can simply refuse to buy, until the farmers become desperate, and basically strongarm them into selling for dirt cheap.

As I've already mentioned, you can look at basically any other country to see what it would look like with the bills in place. Preventing farmers from selling to whoever they want to is not normal. The government is scaremongering over exploitation so that it can continue exploiting people.