-ThePrint.in Researchers associated with Pennsylvania University’s India study centre looked at agricultural markets of Bihar, Odisha and Punjab. They found that intermediaries are a rational response to the dominant structure of Indian farming. Most Indian Farmers have tiny farms that yield meagre incomes. They face a multiplicity of risks, which jeopardises even these low incomes. These twin pressures are particularly acute in eastern India, manifest in the two states that were the...
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In Punjab, the centrality of the mandi system -Shreya Sinha
-Hindustan Times The mandi has been a major rallying cry for the protests in Punjab. Its importance to agricultural life cannot be overstated The stand-off between the government and the Farmers on the new farm laws shows no signs of easing. For a long time, the government insisted that the protest was led by middlemen and large Farmers only in Punjab, and to some extent Haryana, who were concerned about losing their...
More »Amid protests over agri laws let's look at how some countries support Farmers -Richard Mahapatra
-Down to Earth Every day, 54, mostly developed countries give nearly $2 billion in support to their Farmers The sites of the Farmers’ protests on the borders of Delhi are a microcosm of Indian peasantry — rich and poor, small and big, irrigated and rainfed and supported and not supported. The voices from these sites have now merged into one clarion call: Guarantee government support to Farmers by legalising the minimum support...
More »A new harvest -Shiv Visvanathan
-The Telegraph Agriculture has a moral economy that the media lack The Farmers strike of 2020 as an event was a collage of multiple narratives. It tempted one to compare it to the story of the seven blind men and the elephant. As reportage, it lacked the solidity of traditional narratives. It was as if every reporter and news broadcaster, every witness, had a different reaction to the events of the week....
More »Farmers' protest can go on as long as it doesn't endanger life, property: Supreme Court -Meghna Sen
-Livemint.com * CJI Bobde, who on Wednesday said that the matter must be handed over to a committee, told that the panel must have 'independent members with knowledge of agriculture and hear both sides and give a report on what needs to be done' * He also suggested that the independent committee can have P Sainath, Bhartiya Kisan Union and others as members The Supreme Court on Thursday said that the ongoing Farmers'...
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