-ThePrint.in If there is one moment to bust the myth about MSP being unviable, it is now, when lakhs of Farmers are preparing to march to the capital on Republic Day. Can the Farmers of India be offered a guaranteed remunerative price for their produce? The Narendra Modi government, some economists, and the country’s media would have you believe that this is impossible — both logistically and financially. They are wrong. They...
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Farmers’ protest-- In a thaw, Centre offers to put off farm laws for 18 months -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Unions to study proposal, return for talks on January 22. Farm union leaders will consider a proposal from the Central government to suspend the implementation of three contentious farm laws for the next one and a half years while a committee is formed to look into their demands. Union leaders said the Centre had also offered to submit an affidavit to the Supreme Court to this effect. They will discuss the...
More »Government offers to put on hold farm laws for 1-1.5 years; Farmer unions to discuss internally
-PTI/ The New Indian Express The two sides decided to meet again on Friday after the union leaders hold their own internal consultations on Thursday to decide on the government's new proposal. NEW DELHI: Yielding some ground to end the nearly two-month-long protest by thousands of Farmers on the national capital borders, the government on Wednesday proposed to suspend the three contentious farm laws for 1-1.5 years and set up a joint...
More »The political economy driving farm protests -Neelanjan Sircar
-Hindustan Times The concentration of political and economic power has made democratic contestation challenging. Citizens are finding other methods Fearing that India’s controversial proposed farm laws will disproportionately benefit a few corporate magnates, Farmers have made Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance storefronts and Reliance Jio infrastructure the sites of major protest over the past few months. While Ambani has insisted that his company has no plans to enter corporate farming, his purported political networks...
More »Save Punjab from desertification, move paddy-wheat to UP, Bihar, Bengal -- agronomist SS Johl -Samyak Pandey and Urjita Bhardwaj
-ThePrint.in 93-year-old Dr Johl explains why Punjab has been in an agrarian crisis for years, and how the lives of its stressed Farmers can be made easier. Ludhiana: If Punjab’s march towards desertification is to be stopped, the best way is to move the cultivation of wheat and paddy out to 50 lakh hectares of land in the Gangetic plains of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal, according to Dr Sardara Singh...
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