-NDTV.com Farmers Protest: On Tuesday, sources said the centre had indicated it is willing to offer a written assurance on a number of the farmers' demands, including a committee on MSP. New Delhi: Farmers who have spent the last 15 months protesting the farm laws and pushing for a legal guarantee for MSP, are on the brink of scaling down their agitation after accepting a second draft proposal from the government, which...
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How feasible is MSP as a legal right? The good, the bad and the impossible -Vivek Kaul
-Newslaundry.com Given that the issue is so political, all nuance has gone out of the window. A deepdive on what the demand actually means for the government and farmers. In her new book Cogs and Monsters—What Economics is and What It Should Be, the British economist Diane Coyle uses the word nuance thrice. She writes that “politics and nuance are strangers”. And that “the eye of the public is caught, by confident statements...
More »PepsiCo loses rights to special Lays variety potato in India -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu The company’s registration of the variety has been revoked by the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights’ Authority. Two years after PepsiCo India provoked outrage by suing nine Gujarati farmers for allegedly infringing patent rights by growing its registered potato variety, the company’s registration has been revoked by the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights’ Authority (PPV&FRA). “This judgement is a historic victory for the farmers of India. It...
More »Punjab farmer leaders say Centre must reply to demands by November 30; SKM meeting on December 1
-PTI/ The Hindu The demands included legal guarantee for MSP, withdrawal of cases against farmers and compensation for those who died during the agitation Terming the repeal of the farm laws in Parliament a victory of the protesters, farmer leaders from Punjab demanded a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) of crops and said an emergency meeting of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha on December 1 will decide their future course of...
More »What will a legal guarantee of MSP involve? -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Why are farm unions seeking a minimum support price for all crops? What are the terms of the committee set up to look into their demands? The story so far: After a year-long agitation on the borders of Delhi, protesting farm unions under the banner of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha have achieved their headline demand, namely the repeal of three contentious laws seeking to reform the storage and marketing of...
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