-The Indian Express While the Sanghatana has supported the farm laws, it has also demanded that the ban on the export of onions be removed forthwith — and has threatened to pelt BJP MPs with onion bulbs if the central government did not accede to the demand. On Monday, some farmers’ unions met Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar to express support for the three farm laws against which thousands of farmers are...
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Farmers’ concern: Will lose land to corporates because of the new laws -Sukrita Baruah , Raakhi Jagga , Amil Bhatnagar and Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express With farmers rejecting the government’s offer and deciding to continue their protest against the farm laws, The Sunday Express meets some of the farmers camping at Delhi’s borders, and visits their families and farms back home, to find a shared concern — a sense of despair over falling crop prices. Kurukshetra, Ludhiana, Moga, New Delhi, Patiala: Many countries experiencing rapid growth and rising prosperity, which may even be over...
More »State Govt Documents Belie Nitish Kumar's Claim on Grain Procurement in Bihar -Dheeraj Mishra
-TheWire.in In a letter to the Centre, Bihar's agriculture secretary said that farmers were forced to sell their produce at low prices due to lack of go-downs and procurement facilities. New Delhi: Even as protests by farmers continue unabated against the three agriculture laws enacted by the Narendra Modi government, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has spoken in favour of the Centre’s move claiming that the new laws are being implemented across...
More »Farmers Denied Rs 1,900 Crore Due to Sales Below MSP in Last Two Months -Kabir Agarwal and Dheeraj Mishra
-TheWire.in The Wire's analysis reinforces the fact that the announcement of MSP for most crops remains mostly on paper as farmers are rarely able to sell it for these prices. New Delhi: If the government’s minium support price (MSP) programme helped in properly creating a minimum floor price, farmers across 11 major agricultural states would have, on average, earned almost Rs 1,900 crore more by selling their produce. According to The Wire’s analysis...
More »Bihar procurement at snail’s pace, farmers forced to sell paddy much below MSP -Santosh Singh
-The Indian Express Several farmers told The Indian Express that they had to sell their paddy for Rs 800-Rs 1,200 per quintal in open market, although the MSP is Rs 1,868 per quintal, as the procurement process is yet to begin in their areas. Patna: THE MAJORITY of farmers in Bihar, who have harvested their paddy crop this season, have no option but to sell their produce at rates much below the...
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