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Tens of thousands of farmers have gathered at the outskirts of Delhi from November 26 last year protesting against the three contentious farm laws: The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, The Essential Commodities Act (Amendment) Bill and the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill. All these three bills have made Indian farmers, most of them own less than one acre even more vulnerable by giving the levers of pow...

Dilli Chalo: The Pulse of Those That Feed the Nation Since the economic reforms and the opening up of Indian agriculture to global markets, farmers across the nation have been subjected to severe economic distress, unusual changes in agriculture practices resulting in agrarian crises, and unpredictable market fluctuations. In other words, the life of an Indian farmer is riddled with untold stories of misery and despair, consequently leading to a spate of deaths primarily by suicide as a res...

Express News Service PATNA: Amid the ongoing farmers’ agitation against the new farm laws, JD (U) has come out in support of the new laws on Wednesday. JD(U) national president RCP Singh through a media statement said that the farm bill is not the “anti-farmer” in any manner. Singh said that the three farm laws are not the ‘anti-farmer’ and the “mandis” in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh used to be a den of corruption. “When our government came to Bihar, we abolished the APMC Act and ...

Int’l Border-Like Fencing Hurts Access to Water, Toilets for Protesting Farmers in Delhi © REUTERS / ADNAN ABIDI Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202102031081966598-intl-border-like-fencing-hurts-access-to-water-toilets-for-protesting-farmers-in-delhi/ Thousands of farmers in India have been protesting on the outskirts of Delhi since November, demanding that three new farm laws passed by the Modi government last Septemb...

Ashwini Bhide, additional municipal commissioner, MCGM Mumbai needs to convert its need-based policy to land-based policy and plan properly to handle crisis situations in future, believes Ashwini Bhide, additional municipal commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), who was part of Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray’s task-force on Covid-19 response. “Mumbai needs to address basic issues of sanitation, access, and proper planning within these settlements and ens...

Representative image COIMBATORE: A 50-year-old man was arrested at Gomangalam on Sunday for illegally storing fertilizer that is provided by the government to the farmers at subsidised price. The Gomangalam police identified the accused as B Mummoorthy, of Alagappa Street at Jothi Nagar in Pollachi. He was nabbed during a vehicle check on Pollachi-Udumalpet road. A police officer said the Pollachi agriculture officer, Thulasimani, had seized 905 fertilizer bags meant for distribution under th...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) regime has undergone a change to assure price to farmers that is at least 1.5 times the cost of production across all commodities. During her third budget speech in Lok Sabha, Sitharaman said: "Our government is committed to the welfare of farmers. The MSP regime has undergone a change to assure price that is at least 1.5 times the cost of production across all commodities. The procurement has also continu...

As farmers protest at Delhi borders against the contentious laws continues unabated, Pawar said in a series of tweets that the MSP mechanism should be strengthened further

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, Jan 31 Amid a raging farmers’ agitation and opposition’s accusations that the new farm laws will demolish the mandis and the MSP system, the Government Sunday issued a first-of-its-kind detailed fact sheet to dispel “incorrect information” on the laws and reiterated that the mandi system and MSP regime will not be affected by new legislations. A day after NCP chief Sharad Pawar attacked the Centre for bringing laws to destroy the mandi system, Agriculture Ministe...

Rahul Gandhi termed farmers as patriots and appealed to citizens to support them. New Delhi: As the ninth round of talks between the Centre and farmers failed to resolve the deadlock over the three agriculture laws, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the government wants to "tire out" the protestors by engaging them over long discussions. "There is no deadlock. The government, in its arrogance, believes that they can tire out farmers. But farmers cannot be fooled. Indian farmers know...