-CaravanMagazine.in For over a month, lakhs of Farmers from Punjab and Haryana have been camped on Delhi’s borders in one of the largest agrarian protests in India’s history, while talks with the government on withdrawing three farm laws that deregulate the sector persist. At the other end of the country, over the past six years, the agrarian system in Telangana has seen major systemic shifts, after the formation of the state...

-The Tribune Instead of leaving the Farmers to face the vagaries of markets, which have pushed them globally into a debt trap, the demand for ensuring that no trading takes place below the MSP not only provides Farmers with a safety net but it will also gradually become an economic design for the rest of the world to emulate. Across the globe, Farmers are suffering the consequences of keeping farm-gate prices...

-CaravanMagazine.in In 2006, the Bihar government deregulated the agricultural sector, and largely removed government oversight over food grain procurement. Previously a majority of food grain procurement happened through the Agricultural Produce Market Committee, a marketing board run by the state government that would organise mandis—wholesale markets—where Farmers could directly sell their produce to the Food Corporation of India or the State Farming Corporation at the established minimum support price. The MSP...

-Hindustan Times Recent research at the London School of Economics examines a decade of high-quality Farmer-buyer data from Kenya during a period when it introduced radical farm laws to encourage agri-businesses to determine impacts on small Farmers In the debate on new farm laws, emotions are running high with concerns that small Farmers are being pitted against large agri-businesses. The new laws contain mostly untried policies and it is difficult to gauge...

-TheWire.in Going forward, processed foods, with both low and high levels of secondary processing, offers significant potential for non-farm jobs, and equally makes agriculture remunerative. India takes pride in producing surplus food-grains, oilseeds, spices, milk, fruits and vegetables. Many a time, due to a large supply of agricultural produce, market prices crash, leaving the Farmers out in the cold. Low bargaining power, lack of storage infrastructure and inadequate cold storage facilities in the...