New Delhi, Dec. 18 -- Months after the farmers spent protesting against the impracticality of the farm laws approved by the Centre, a group of top economists appealed to the Union agricultural minister Narendra Singh Tomar to repeal the laws in contention.

"We believe that the Indian government should repeal the recent Farm Acts that are not in the best interests of small and marginal farmers and about which a broad section of farmer organizations has raised very critical objections," said 10 economists of universities across the country, in an open letter.

Though the economists agreed with a need for reforms in agricultural marketing, they said that the laws do not serve the purpose.

The group includes retired professors D. Narasimha ...