Marketing reforms in the agriculture sector is the need of the hour to make it a remunerative livelihood activity for farmers of the country, who constitute almost 70 per cent of the population. But this needs to be made through a wide consultation process involving all stakeholders, particularly the farming community. Reforms made by the government in the recent past may be partly good for the farmers, but the message these have sent to the farmers is not very good. And that is why a large section of the farmers is protesting the three central laws brought by the central government to reform agricultural marketing.