-The Indian Express Dr. Varinderpal Singh, Principal Soil Chemist at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, went up on the dais at an event organised by the Fertilizers Association of India in the Capital on Monday, but refused to receive the award from the Union minister for chemicals and fertilizers. Ludhiana: In more symbolic support to the farmers’ protest on the fringes of Delhi, a senior agricultural scientist refused to accept an award...
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Centre will not repeal farm laws, will send written proposal on December 9 -Priscilla Jebaraj and Vikas Vasudeva
-The Hindu The sixth round of talks with all farmer unions will not be held on December 9. Union Home Minister Amit Shah told a select group of farmers’ leaders late on Tuesday that the Centre would not repeal the three contentious farm sector laws on a day that saw nationwide road blockades and peaceful protests in support of the demand for a rollback of the legislations. Mr. Shah said the Centre will...
More »Indian farmers protests: The higher the yield, the greater the discontent -Shagun Kapil and Rajit Sengupta
-Down to Earth Loss of faith in government due to its perceived failure on multiple fronts regarding agrarian issues in the last 11 months have now boiled over Indian farmers have grown more discontented with government policies in the last one year, even as they have produced historic harvests. Their protests have spread to newer regions of the country, records of the last two years show, even as the ongoing protests in...
More »MSP recorded sharper climb under UPA rule, data contradict Modi government -Kumar Vikram
-The New Indian Express Between 2006-07 and 2013-14, when the UPA was in power, there was a 90 to 205% rise in the minimum support price (MSP) of major crops, including paddy, wheat, arhar, gram, maize and masoor. NEW DELHI: After the fifth round of talks with agitating farmers, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Saturday claimed that the current government has done more for farmers when it comes to minimum...
More »The many layers to agricultural discontent -Valerian Rodrigues
-The Hindu The Farm Acts that are the focus of the farmers’ protest bear variously on the different strata of the farming community At a kisan rally in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh on February 28, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke of his vision of doubling the income of India’s farmers by 2022. Subsequently, several central leaders and even official committees have reiterated this tall promise. Probably, one of the measures that the...
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