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State-Corporatist Alliance and Farmers’ Unrest in India The ongoing Indian farmers’ protest in reaction to corporatisation of agricultural land and access to Mandis (open markets) demands an urgent legal reexamination of its impact on agrarian labour and small-scale farmers. These changes to market floor prices of farm products in India have been put in place as a product of a state-corporatist alliance under the Modi government. These signal a rolling out of corporatisation and bureaucrat...

Farmers block tracks in Haryana Updated: Updated: Women participate in large numbers in the ‘rail roko’ programme at two places Share Article Women participate in large numbers in the ‘rail roko’ programme at two places Agitating farmers supported by khaps laid blockade at 44 points across Haryana on Thursday as part of Samyukt Kisan Morcha’s “rail roko” programme, seeking the repeal of the three farm laws and legal guarantee for the Minimum Support Price. The women also particip...

Updated Feb 13, 2021 · 09:25 pm A file photo of Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar. | Manohar Lal/YouTube As thousands of farmers press on with their agitation, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Khattar on Saturday announced that his government will introduce a law for recovery of losses due to damage to public property during demonstrations, reported ANI. The chief minister made the comments after a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, during which the...

CITU Haryana unit to gherao eight Ministers Updated: Updated: Move is part of union’s nationwide campaign supporting farmers’ agitation Share Article Move is part of union’s nationwide campaign supporting farmers’ agitation The Haryana unit of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) will gherao eight Ministers, including Chief Minister Manohar Lal, over the next week to express solidarity with the farmers seeking repeal of the farm laws. It is part of CITU’s nationwide campaign support...

Indias small farmers worry reforms will threaten livelihoods By (0) Farmers attend a protest at the Delhi Ghazipur Border near New Delhi, India,  on Thursday. Photo by Harish Tyagi/EPA-EFE Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Indias farmers have been protesting since the autumn, with a growing intensity that culminated in a violent breaching of barriers in the Red Fort in Delhi during Indias Republic Day celebrations on Jan. 26. The protests were spurred by the passing of a set of agricultural reform bills in pa...

Updated: Rabi crops record significant increase in acreage Share Article AAA Women farmers from Haryana arrive at the Singu border to join the ongoing protest against three farm laws brought in by the Centre, on Monday.   | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Rabi crops record significant increase in acreage With the farmer protests raging in Delhi, the government has slightly increased the budget allocated for agriculture and allied activities from the previous year. In FY2021-22, the budgeted ...

Demand for MSP Guarantee Ignores Agricultural Labourers and Widening Class Divide The public procurement infrastructure must be overhauled. Expansion must be even and penetrate deeper into the stratified rural economy. Representative image of a farmer at work. IWMI Flickr Photos/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Rights25/Jan/2021 The notoriously brief 11th round of talks between the Union government and the protesting farmers’ unions ended without offering any solution to issue of the three farm la...

Though the Supreme Court has stayed the implementation of these laws and set up an expert committee to resolve the issue, the Centre has kept open the channel of dialogue with the farmers unions.

URL copied Image Source : PTI New Delhi: Farmers leaders during the 10th round of talks with the central government on new farm laws, at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, Wednesday, Jan 20, 2021. The tenth round of talks between the Centre and farmers at Delhis Vigyan Bhawan has failed to break the ongoing impasse concerning the new agriculture reforms. However, the governments intent to suspend the implementation of farm laws for one year offers some hope as the fa...

The Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare on Monday said that the meeting between a group of ministers and farmer unions scheduled for January 19 has been postponed to January 20.The meeting is scheduled to take place at 2 p.m. here ...