-Livemint.com For over 12 days now, Farmers have been pressing the Centre to repeal a set of agriculture laws passed in September. Centre argues that the agenda is to offer choice to Farmers while growers see unregulated private markets as a threat to minimum support prices. Mint explores. * Why are Farmers more wary of pvt markets? Over the last five years, low global and domestic commodity prices have taken a toll on...
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MSP recorded sharper climb under UPA rule, data contradict Modi government -Kumar Vikram
-The New Indian Express Between 2006-07 and 2013-14, when the UPA was in power, there was a 90 to 205% rise in the minimum support price (MSP) of major crops, including paddy, wheat, arhar, gram, maize and masoor. NEW DELHI: After the fifth round of talks with agitating Farmers, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Saturday claimed that the current government has done more for Farmers when it comes to minimum...
More »Neither govt nor protesting Farmers recognise challenge of depleting natural resources and climate crisis -Richa Kumar, Nikhit Kumar Agrawal, PS Vijayshankar and AR Vasavi
-The Indian Express If we truly want to ensure the livelihoods of our Farmers and provide safe, healthy, nutritious food for our consumers, it is imperative to make policies that go beyond the productivity trope and populist posturing. Proponents of the three new farm laws have claimed that they will engender competition in agricultural markets and will give Farmers a choice to sell wherever they like. The opponents of these laws, including...
More »Why farm politics doesn't win elections in India -Sanjay Kumar
-Livemint.com India has seen several large Farmer-led movements. Yet, farm issues have rarely dominated national election campaigns, as Indian Farmers remain divided by caste, geography, and class More than thirty years after hundreds of thousands of Farmers led by Mahendra Singh Tikait brought Delhi to its knees, a new farm agitation has once again shaken Delhi. A government worried that it might be seen as ‘anti-Farmer’ has agreed to reconsider the recent...
More »Bihar scrapped APMC Act, mandi system 14 years ago; here’s what it did to Farmers -CK Manoj
-Down to Earth Why are Farmers protesting the government’s ’reforms’, ask many. A look at how Bihar’s Farmers have fared may explain The recent controversy about India’s newly minted farm laws have brought back into focus what Nitish Kumar did a decade-and-a-half ago: Shutting down the mandi (wholesale markets for agricultural produce) system in 2006. The much-touted ‘reform’ has impacted the state’s Farmers, and not in a good way. Farmers have had to...
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