-CaravanMagazine.in In the cover story of The Caravan’s March 2021 issue, “Mandi, Market and Modi,” Hartosh Singh Bal reported about the Indian government’s efforts to remake India’s agricultural economy for large private players. In the following excerpt from the story, Bal traces the infrastructure that the Adani group have already built to store, transport and market agricultural produce. There has been considerable conversation around what the entry of private buyers in procurement...
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Can Farmland for the Landless Become A Reality On A Large Scale in India -Bharat Dogra
-Countercurrents.org More than half of rural households in India are landless, or almost so. This deprives them of the most obvious asset needed for sustainable livelihoods and food security in villages–farmland. After agriculture the next most important source of rural livelihood in India is dairy farming but here too the household with farmland has free access to crop residues which is increasingly not available to landless households who have to incur extra...
More »West Bengal Assembly Elections: EC notice to Suvendu Adhikari over hate speech complaint
-The Hindu It asks him to explain his stand within 24 hours. The Election Commission on Thursday sent a notice to BJP candidate from Nandigram Suvendu Adhikari in connection with a “hate speech” complaint against him. The EC said it received a complaint from CPI(ML) Politburo member Kavita Krishnan alleging that Mr. Adhikari had delivered a hate speech in Nandigram on March 29. The EC quoted Mr. Adhikari as saying: “You are not giving...
More »Assembly elections 2021: Voter turnout lower in 90% of seats compared to 2016 -Vignesh Radhakrishnan, Sumant Sen and Naresh Singaravelu
-The Hindu Despite the fall, 80%-plus voter turnout was recorded in more than 60% of the seats in Assam and Puducherry Compared to the 2016 Assembly election, turnout decreased in 90% of the 530 seats in the four States where voting for the 2021 State polls took place on April 6. Nearly 86% of seats in Tamil Nadu, 95% in Kerala, 90% in Assam, and all the seats in Puducherry recorded lower turnout...
More »After diesel, fertilisers to take toll on farmers; IFFCO hikes prices by 45-58% -Harish Damodaran and Harikishan Sharma
-The Indian Express A 50-kg bag of di-ammonium phosphate (DAP), the most widely consumed fertiliser in India after urea, will cost farmers Rs 1,900, more than 58 per cent higher than the existing rate of Rs 1,200/bag. In the midst of Assembly elections in West Bengal and ongoing protests against the Centre’s farm laws, the country’s largest fertiliser seller – Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO) – has steeply raised prices of nutrients. A...
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