-The Hindu Agrarian crisis has not dimmed Prime Minister Modi’s appeal The sugarcane Farmers gathered around a tree-shaded charpoy at Bhainswala village, a few kilometres from Shamli town in western Uttar Pradesh, share a common litany of woes — late payments, high input costs, the stray cattle menace — for which most blame the policies of the BJP government. But when the discussion veers around to the Lok Sabha election, pandemonium breaks out...

-Scroll.in Recent farm loan waivers and income support schemes have had little impact amid growing agrarian distress. In January, Farmers across the state of Punjab took to the roads in protest. In 12 districts of the state, they were protesting against banks that filed cases against loan defaulting Farmers. Also part of their demands from the government was compensation of Rs 10 lakh each for families of Farmers that had committed suicides,...

-The Hindu Business Line With people too busy collecting it, attendance at poll meetings is thin It’s the schedule of water tankers, and not the time and availability of political bigwigs and national leaders, that is determining the timing of election meetings and rallies in Maharashtra’s drought-affected regions. With the drought intensifying and paucity of water rising, over 3,117 water tankers, as against just 391 in March 2018, are plying in 8,000 villages...

-The Times of India Farmer unrest in Tamil Nadu is a much-debated subject on the eve of the Lok Sabha polls. However, the widespread agrarian distress has been in the making for decades as successive governments have had little understanding of the sector’s problems. Now that elections are here, Farmers, who are an influential group in most of the constituencies, are again the focus of political campaigners. “Both the Congress and the...

-The New Indian Express In market-driven agriculture, the crisis deepens with the existing asymmetries between men and women Farmers. NEW DELHI: Green Revolution marginalises women Farmers pushing them to the fringes, according to a paper by Centre for Social Justice and the Revitalizing Rainfed Agricultural Network. This is primarily because the Green Revolution tends to be dismissive of women’s contributions to agriculture, the paper pointed out. Green Revolution leads to the dismantling of...