-The Hindu Business Line Farmers from Punjab and Haryana have turned the Singhu border into a makeshift and vibrant village. The elderly peasants in kurta pyjamas and young men in track pants and sneakers who have gathered there are looking not for largesse — but just a fair deal * The laws seek to remove the guarantee of a minimum support price (MSP) and deregulate crop pricing, which, the farmers hold, will...
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Why Farmers Are Worried About New Laws; It’s The History -Monika Mandal
-IndiaSpend.com The new farm laws that aim to double farmers’ income in two years by deregulating agricultural markets may further widen the inequalities in the sector, shows our analysis of similar legislations from the past. By weakening the government’s price guarantee system, the laws may end up hurting small and poor farmers, who form 80% of the sector and 23% of those who live below the poverty line, say critics. The privatisation...
More »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 »Ongoing farmer protests have no parallels in recent memory -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com Farmers from Punjab and Haryana are well prepared for a long haul after occupying highways leading to the national capital New Delhi: Hundreds of thousands of farmers from Punjab and Haryana have stationed themselves at Delhi’s doorstep leading to an unprecedented standoff between the centre and farmer unions. In the past few years, farmer protests in Delhi were largely a day or a two-day event packed with speeches demanding loan waivers...
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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