The need for the Parliament to pay attention to the two main forms of the plan to amend the Guaranteed Purchase Law presented by the Agriculture Commission
The Agriculture Commission of the Islamic Parliament, in its first step to support farmers and reduce the problems of this working group, amended the law on guaranteeing the purchase of basic agricultural products. During the recent years, the government refused to implement this law under various pretexts, and this had caused losses to farmers and serious damage to the country’s food security. For example, during the 1998-99 crop year, despite the production of more than 13 million tons of wheat in the country, about 8.2 million tons of this product were purchased by the government from farmers.
In the amendment plan of the commission, the new pricing council consisting of representatives of the government and farmers will be responsible for determining the guaranteed purchase price of agricultural products. On the other hand, the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad, as the chairman of the council, will announce the determined prices after approval, so that this ministry will be the final responsible for the implementation of the guaranteed purchase law.
The noteworthy point in the revision plan of the Guaranteed Purchase Law is the lack of attention to the executive guarantee of this law. In other words, the representatives of the Islamic Council did not pay attention to the issue of financial resources and the judicial follow-up of the Minister of Jihad of Agriculture in case of making wrong decisions, so that this issue leaves the hands of the governments open for non-implementation of the law. Considering the financial resources and executive guarantee is not only not against the laws and documents of the upstream, but also causes the consistency and proper implementation of this law by the government and makes the work of the parliament easier for monitoring.
Mentioning two examples of the government’s actions in the field of implementing the guaranteed purchase law shows the importance of the two mentioned items:
1 ⃣ During the last year, the government made a wrong decision and caused the country’s foreign currency and rial resources to be wasted and depended again on wheat imports, but still no one from the government has been accountable to the people and the parliament. In the new plan of the Agricultural Commission, despite the fact that the Minister of Agricultural Jihad is responsible for the implementation of the Guaranteed Purchase Law, but if for any reason the Minister of Agricultural Jihad does not carry out the implementation of the law, irreparable damage will definitely be caused to the country, so that in this case, impeachment or questioning will definitely not be able to affect the damage. to compensate the country. Therefore, in addition to the political monitoring of the performance of the Minister of Jihad of Agriculture, the parliament specified the clause “judicial punishment for the Minister of Jihad of Agriculture in case of violation in the implementation of the law” in the law, and it was necessary to increase the cost of a wrong decision for the minister in order to protect the food security of the country with a wrong decision. Do not face danger.
2 ⃣ During the past years, disagreements in determining the correct price of products always caused the prices to be announced late. The delay in announcing the price of the products would cause the farmers to withdraw from the production of strategic products and ultimately the country’s dependence on the import of basic products. By considering the judicial guarantee for the law enforcement officer, it will make the aforementioned official not to delay in announcing the prices and set the prices correctly.
Therefore, in order to improve the implementation of the Guaranteed Purchase Law, the MPs were expected to include the aforementioned reforms in the amendment plan of the Guaranteed Purchase Law, so that in the coming years, we would not see the government’s reluctance to implement the most important law to protect farmers.
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