Indian farmer protests

The protests are over, but what were they really about? Western media kept talking about muh ebil capitalism and muh Modi, but I would prefer an unbiased answer or at least a response from Indians

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THEY JUST WANNA FARM

I think don't fucking get it and I read many articles and watched many youtube vids about it

Same reason china being in the same market as everybody else sucks.

Western media basically said “Modi is removing regulations and now the little guy (farmer) will be exploited”

I am skeptical however, since India went through decades of socialism, and it is possible that Modi is trying to improve the 1) ease of doing business and 2) economic freedom in picrel

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And ease of doing business index, India is 77, and East Asian tigers are in top 10

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WHERE ARE THE SIRS

Simple
India had a subsidy for farmers since the 1960s of fixed and nationally regulated prices.
Modi dumped the regulations because they were causing surpluses
He did it too fast so everyone protested as the days of gibs were over, he should have slow rolled it out but whatever

Farming in India is done like this:
Landed castes (basically Western/Soviet equivalent of kulaks) control most of the agricultural business. These people come under "Other Backward Castes" due to their historically backward educational status under India's system of affirmative action for backward communities so they get to play victim while owning swathes of land at the same time.

Anyways, the Kulaks control most of the farming business by exploiting poorer people. Unlike China or Soviet Russia since land in India still hasn't been nationalised, that meant that the government had to deal with the kulaks for its agricultural produce. India was very poor in the 1950s, so it was the government that had to distribute food amongst the people. The govt created the Food Corporation of India (FCI) that would buy grains from these Kulaks at a minimum support price. Eventually, these people began dominating the FCI itself. So every poor farmer with an acre of land had to only deal with these people.
The problem is, only rice, wheat, and a few other "basic" crops qualify for the FCI's minimum support price. Because the farmers can only sell to the FCI and not to private corporations, this means that agriculture in India is highly inefficient, and destroys the soil and rice and wheat farming is soil intensive.
Modi wanted to remove restrictions on selling of foodgrains to private players to diversify the crops, but the kulaks were obviously pissed because once private corps enter the market, their dominance would be destroyed.
The kulaks had their men rioting, and even raping, and killing across Delhi, to stop this from happening. Eventually, the Modi government withdrew the farm laws at the Union level.
These Kulaks had the support of foreign governments including UK, Canada and the US.
However, even if the laws are withdrawn at the Union level, they are being passed at state level.

States like Bihar, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu have nationalized the land and are allowing smaller farmers to sell their produce to private companies. Eventually, states that have passed the farm laws will prosper, and states that are run by kulaks will suffer. Free market forgives no one.