-The Hindu The Farm Acts were legislative misadventures, while much more is needed to address the genuine fears of Farmers The eruption of massive Farmers’ protests across India against the Farm Acts has shocked those in the seat of power in Delhi. According to the government, many private markets will be established, middlemen would disappear, Farmers would be free to sell to any buyer and farmgate prices would rise. But the protesting...
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Amid An Important Farmer Debate, Don't Forget the Woes of India's Landless Workers -Bharat Dogra
-TheWire.in While landless farm workers and landless peasants outnumber land-owning Farmers, the former are almost entirely absent in the policy and policy-debates on farming. What is the most numerous segment of Indian society? Many people routinely believe that it is land-owning Farmers. But no, the latest census data says that it is the rural landless who comprise the largest segment of our populace. At present, the latest census data we have is for...
More »‘Shame on the media’: Why protesting Farmers are angry with the news coverage -Vijayta Lalwani
-Scroll.in Indians are not being given the information they need to really understand why Farmers are angry about the new agricultural laws, they say. Fifty-eight-year-old Jasbeer Singh listed the names of the places in Haryana where he had to negotiate police barriers before finally arriving at the state’s Singhu border with Delhi as he travelled from his home in Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib district about 250 km away. Shambhu, between Punjab and Haryana, had...
More »Women Farmers worst hit by anti-farmer laws: National Women’s Organisations
-SabrangIndia.in The group of leading womens’ organisations write open letter to PM Modi; will soon hold nationwide protests against the “ruthlessness exhibited by the Union government” National women’s organisations have written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding that the government stop repressing the Farmers’ legitimate and peaceful protests immediately. They have asked that all cases imposed on the struggling Farmers and leaders of the Farmers’ organisations be withdrawn and...
More »Centre’s Scheme to Convert Rural Haats into Agri Markets Remains Unutilised -Dheeraj Mishra
-TheWire.in Announced in the 2018-19 budget, the scheme was meant to provide small and marginal Farmers with 22,000 mini APMCs and thus fair prices. But RTI queries show that not a single haat has been developed into an agricultural market. New Delhi: The Centre’s scheme to convert rural haats (village markets) into agricultural markets, which was meant to help small and marginal Farmers who cannot access the Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMC)...
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