-The Hindu Limited impact in western Uttar Pradesh’s sugarcane belt After attracting thousands of Farmers from Punjab and Uttar Pradesh to join a year-long agitation, farm union leaders were largely unable to leverage that mass support to tilt the results in the Assembly polls.  In Punjab, the union leaders who fought the elections are set to lose their deposits. In U.P., where the wider Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) platform campaigned against the BJP...

-The Hindu Dependence on private sector is on the rise, they say Channai: Farmers supplying milk to the Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers Federation (Aavin) have urged the State government to increase procurement prices. Citing the example of another cooperative, Amul, which has recently hiked selling price of milk by ₹2 per litre, M.G. Rajendran of the Tamil Nadu Milk Producers Welfare Association said Farmers in Gujarat, where Amul is based out of,...

-Deccan Chronicle The report revealed that 24 lakh tenant Farmers existed in the State while the agriculture department put the figure at 16 lakh Vijayawada: The situation of tenant Farmers in Andhra Pradesh is in a dire situation with only 9.6 per cent receiving Crop Cultivating Rights Cards and only three per cent landless tenant Farmers getting Rythu Bharosa scheme, said a study conducted by Rythu Swarajya Vedika, which released a report...

-Press release by Rythu Swarajya Vedika dated March 8, 2022 A new report on tenant Farmers in Andhra Pradesh by Rythu Swarajya Vedika reveals how the denial of land owners' signatures on the Crop Cultivator Rights Cards is adversely affecting them. The Rythu Swarajya Vedika (RSV), a network of organizations and individuals working for the well-being and rights of farming community, released Part-1 of the report of its extensive study of tenant Farmers...

-Scroll.in With anger building up over economic distress, voters might not be as forgiving about their farm losses this time. It took time but when it came, it was a flurry. A good ten days into the Assembly elections and with two phases of the seven-phased polling already over, the Bharatiya Janata Party finally addressed the stray cattle problem in Uttar Pradesh’s fields. The first to break to silence was Prime Minister Narendra...