Something very important that the article is missing is the role that grain buyers play in the grain sector.

Grain buyers are the mediators between farmers and the market (industry, consumers, exports, etc...), they buy and resell your grain. They have also grown to be also the providers of inputs (seed, fertilizer, chemicals, etc...) + credit and thus insurance (they are heavily involved in the finance sector).

They hold all the power in the farming sector, if something fishy is going on you can bet they are involved, if not directly responsible.

I know a man that can fix this, we have to revive him from the dead

fucking speculators

They have no excuse for what they do. These grain speculators might as well be seen as the kinds of robbers that break into peoples houses and treated as such. A poor theif may only be able to rob a few houses but these speculators can rob the entire public and deprive them of food.

Not that BJP is ideologically opposed to it, but I wonder how much of the policy changes around the reduction in government intervention in food production and distribution are because of IMF stipulations. USA for example was not opposed to the three bills that the farmers protested against for a whole year. IMF and WTO always push for more private involvement in this sector. On the other hand, the industrialists that gain from these changes are in cahoots with BJP, so these factors probably compound each other.