-The Hindu Business Line Ryots in the sugar belt use their own money, shun funding from mill owners Kolhapur (Maharashtra): “I have money to contribute to your election fund,” says a man in tattered clothes, taking out a soiled ?10 note from his pocket. He hands over the note with a broad smile and a promise: “I have given a note, and now I will vote.” It’s a sunny afternoon in a tiny...
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Explained: Why farmers in the sugar bowl of Western Maharashtra are angry -Parthasarathi Biswas
-The Indian Express Farmers protested violently over the weekend in support of their demand for a one-time payment of the fair and remunerative price. Ballooning cane dues could become a major issue as LS polls near. Pune: Sugarcane farmers in western Maharashtra Monday called off their violent four-day-old agitation, giving sugar mill owners and the government two weeks to find the money to pay them their full dues. The agreement was...
More »On Friday, farmers groups from across India will march to Parliament. Here is how they mobilised in a year -Kunal Talgeri
-CNBCTV18.com * The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee mobilised a farmers’ movement in a year. * The trigger was a June 2017 farmers’ agitation in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh, where six people died in the midst of violence and police shootings. * In 12 months, the AIKSCC has managed to drive the convergence of farmer groups, including those representing marginalised farmers (women, adivasis and Dalits), apart from the introduction of two Bills. “Farmer...
More »As the milk glut intensifies, farmer protests are likely to spill over -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com Together with large stocks of sugar and higher planting of sugar cane, the surplus situation in Indian agriculture is set to worsen, fuelling another round of farmer protests as states like Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Rajasthan goes to polls Pune/ New Delhi: Karan Ramdas Atole’s dairy farm is a neat brown square of cleared ground surrounded by lush green sugarcane fields. A mechanical engineer by training, 25-year-old Atole took a loan...
More »Rs 25 per litre for milk from July 21, says Maharashtra government
-PTI NAGPUR: An end to the four-day agitation by dairy farmers appeared in sight on Thursday, with the Maharashtra government announcing that it had accepted a key demand of the protesters. The government has decided to give Rs 25 per litre for milk to dairy farmers with effect from July 21, dairy development minister Mahadev Jankar said in the legislative assembly this evening. The farmers had been holding protests in parts of the...
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