-The Indian Express With farmers rejecting the government’s offer and deciding to continue their protest against the farm laws, The Sunday Express meets some of the farmers camping at Delhi’s borders, and visits their families and farms back home, to find a shared concern — a sense of despair over falling crop prices. Kurukshetra, Ludhiana, Moga, New Delhi, Patiala: Many countries experiencing rapid growth and rising prosperity, which may even be over...
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Urban Punjab join farmers’ protests: ‘We don’t have farmland, but we do have a conscience’ -Raakhi Jagga
-The Indian Express As every city in the state saw people coming out on the roads this time, even the industrial town of Ludhiana, which usually never rises to such calls, saw people supporting the bandh. Ludhiana: While the protests against Centre’s farm laws have been driven majorly by farmers, Tuesday’s band saw an outpouring of support from urban areas in Punjab. As every city in the state saw people coming out on...
More »‘Neither a politician, nor a terrorist’: Agricultural scientist writes to PM after refusing award -Raakhi Jagga
-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...
More »Food price flare-up has no real winners -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com * As consumers bear the brunt of high food costs, growers see no benefit. How long will this strange dynamic last? * Many lower income consumers are also not enrolled under the federal food security scheme. An estimate suggests that over 100 million eligible Indians are excluded Ramesh Pangal calls it a season of miseries: Farmers running around with vegetables to find a buyer; leaving tomatoes to rot in the field; dumping...
More »Explained: Why organic matter in soil is crucial for a state like Punjab -Anju Agnihotri Chaba
-The Indian Express Indian-American soil scientist Dr Rattan Lal said in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh soils are degraded and depleted because ‘organic matter' is quite below (.5-.2 per cent). In the past five decades, the state had achieved several firsts in the field of agriculture and even became the first state in the country to install soil fertility map in each village to improve soil health. But the soil of Punjab...
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