Corporates vs Commission Agents: India's farmers really have no choice

The first of a two-part series finds out why farmers in Punjab are spooked by the new legislation

It’s early morning at the Adani wheat silo at Dabra village in Moga district of Punjab and a group of elderly farmers are getting ready for another day of protest after sitting through the night outside the mammoth complex. A community kitchen in the adjoining paddy fields is busy preparing meals as the night watchers outside the two lakh metric tonne wheat silo wait for reinforcements to arrive for the demonstration to continue through the day and night. Elsewhere in the state Reliance operated retail chains, private road tolls and other Adani run wheat silos have become sites of demonstrations