The company has expressed emphatically that it had no ambitionsfrom day one to engage in contract or corporate farming, or eyeing the land ofany farmer. The company claimed that it intends to empower farmers.
A statement released by the company says, “We shall insiston our suppliers to strictly abide by the Minimum Support Price (MSP)mechanism, and/or any other mechanism for remunerative price for farm produce,as may be determined and implemented by the government.”
Furthermore, the company claims to have “never entered intolong-term procurement contracts to gain unfair advantage over farmers or soughtthat its suppliers buy from farmers at less than remunerative prices, nor willit ever do so.”
The statement comes in the wake of deliberate damage to companyproperty including around 1,500 mobile towers, theft of power generators, andrelated looting. The acts are alleged to have been committed by farmers.
The impetus to the miscreants could be the mass perceptionthat Reliance is a prime beneficiary of the three farm laws enacted by thecentral government to modernise the agriculture sector of the nation.
Also, the company has approached the Punjab and Haryana HighCourt against the vandalism seeking protection for its employees and property.The company alluded to possible vested interests and business rivals behind thevandalism.