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Food & Agriculture Specialist In a tweet, the popular Indian Historypics handle recently shared the cover story of erstwhile Hindi weekly Dharamyug (September 1972) titled Ann Upjaaye Kisan! Bhoo

Floor price of paddy up at ₹1,940/quintal

NEW DELHI: Farmers in the Indian capital New Delhi and surrounding areas observed a “black day” on Wednesday to mark six months of protests against agricultural laws they say favor private businesses at the expense of the growers they buy from. Thousands of farmers from the mostly rural states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan have set up camp in the outskirts of the capital to protest against three laws that were passed in September. A few weeks into the protests, which began...

Farmers to Centre: DAP Subsidy Is Not Enough, Address High Input Cost and Repeal Farm Laws Farmers in Punjab felt that the BJPs poor performance in polls held in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal had forced the Centre to announce a140% subsidy on the fertiliser. Representative image of a farmer spraying fertilizer. Photo: IFPRI/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0 Rights26/May/2021 Jalandhar: A week ago, when the Central government announced 140% subsidy on diammonium phosphate (DAP) fertiliser, Bharatiya Janata...

Devinder Sharma Devinder Sharma is a distinguished food and trade policy analyst, an award-winning Indian journalist, writer, thinker, and researcher. Trained as an agricultural scientist (he holds a Master’s in Plant Breeding & Genetics), Sharma has been with the Indian Express, one among the largest selling English language dailies in India. He travels extensively, spending most of his time in the villages. He also uses his regular columns to disseminate the analysis among the masses. His...

556 Essential: The IPR waiver can easily expedite the mass production of generics, making them cheaply available. Reuters Devinder Sharma Food & Agriculture Specialist This is disturbing. With only one-in-500 among the low-income countries having received the vaccine shot against one-in-four among the high-income countries, gross vaccine inequality has been at play. As per the World Health Organisation (WHO), poor countries have received only 0.2 per cent of the vaccine doses while the rich c...

By Mayank Bhardwaj SHAHJANPUR, India (Reuters) - While India battles soaring COVID-19 infections, on the outskirts of New Delhi thousands of farmers s...

Apr 29, 2021 SHAHJANPUR, India – While India battles soaring COVID-19 infections, on the outskirts of New Delhi, thousands of farmers still occupy camps where they are keeping up a monthslong sit-in protest against government legislation that they say harms them. Underlining the organized nature of the movement as it tries to force Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revoke reforms aimed at making agriculture more efficient, farmers are being ferried to and from villages in order to harv...

Amid Covid Chaos And Protests, Farmers Eye Record Wheat Crop Amid Covid Chaos And Protests, Farmers Eye Record Wheat Crop Underlining the organised nature of the movement as it tries to force PM Modi to revoke reforms aimed at making agriculture more efficient, farmers are being ferried to and from villages in order to harvest this years wheat crop. Amid Covid Chaos And Protests, Farmers Eye Record Wheat Crop. (FILE) Shahjanpur: While India battles soaring COVID-19 infections, on the outsk...

Amid Covid chaos and protests, Indias farmers eye record wheat crop They are on track to gather record 109 M tonnes this year, posing headaches for a government, says food policy expert Reuters April 29, 2021 While India battles soaring Covid-19 infections, on the outskirts of New Delhi thousands of farmers still occupy camps where they are keeping up a months-long sit-in protest against government legislation that they say harms them. Underlining the organised nature of the movement as it tr...