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Podcast: Reporters Without Orders
Episode: Reporters Without Orders Ep 285: Farm laws and corporatisation of agriculture
Description: This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by The Reporters’ Collective journalist Shreegireesh Jalihal.Shreegireesh had reported how an NRI businessman, linked to the BJP, had sent a proposal to the Niti Aayog to corporatise the agriculture sector – paving the way to the farm laws that were repealed after wide-spread protests. He divulged his findings regarding the making of the controversial laws and shed light on how a government-appointed task force served as a “lobbying platform for corporates”. He also shared that the government’s task force consulted mostly big corporations such as the Adani g...