-The Hindu FarMers of Punjab and Haryana need the MSP-procurement system, but the government needs it even more for the PDS FarMers’ protests have erupted once again in north India. The farMers’ unions want nothing short of a complete withdrawal of the recently enacted Farm Acts, which they claim will ruin small and marginal farMers. Their main worry is about a possible withdrawal of the Minimum Support Price (MSP) and a dismantling...
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Our way or the highway -Shriya Mohan
-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...
More »The perils of deregulated imperfect agrimarkets -R Ramakumar
-The Hindu The Farm Acts were legislative misadventures, while much more is needed to address the genuine fears of farMers The eruption of massive farMers’ protests across India against the Farm Acts has shocked those in the seat of power in Delhi. According to the government, many private markets will be established, middlemen would disappear, farMers would be free to sell to any buyer and farmgate prices would rise. But the protesting...
More »‘Shame on the media’: Why protesting farMers are angry with the news coverage -Vijayta Lalwani
-Scroll.in Indians are not being given the information they need to really understand why farMers are angry about the new agricultural laws, they say. Fifty-eight-year-old Jasbeer Singh listed the names of the places in Haryana where he had to negotiate police barriers before finally arriving at the state’s Singhu border with Delhi as he travelled from his home in Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib district about 250 km away. Shambhu, between Punjab and Haryana, had...
More »The migrant worker as a ghost among citizens -Sampath G
-The Hindu A new publication contends that their lockdown misery was no anomaly but an effect of exclusion from full citizenship When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the world’s most stringent lockdown on March 24, 2020 with barely four hours notice, lakhs of migrant workers across the country found themselves trapped in a novel situation: their livelihood in the city was gone, but they could not return to their native villages. The...
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