Agricultural Laws in India: An Analysis

Majority of Indian population in rural areas depends on agriculture sector for their livelihood. Agriculture in India still today depends much on the monsoon. But due to uncertainty of monsoon, farmers are unable to make their both ends meet. Numerous problems such as uncertainty in monsoon, low income, indebtedness, migration, child labour etc, prevail in this sector. The farmer who toils days and night to feed the entire nation himself remains hungry due to lack of proper income from agriculture. Hence Agricultural Laws are very necessary for protecting and safeguarding the interest of the agriculturists. Agricultural law means the laws, regulations and treaties etc that govern the agricultural land holding ,agriculture supply chain like production, marketing, and sales etc. Indian Government has enacted various laws relating to land, seeds, Pests and pesticide, fertiliser, livestock, marketing and labour in agricultural sector. Various agricutural universities have been opened to impart modern agriculture education to the students. Through this paper the author seeks to highlight the various laws relating to agricultural sector and the implementation of such laws in India in context to current scenario