Congress MLA from Abohar, Sandeep Jakhar, has written a letter to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann urging him to consider including locally grown fruits/vegetables such as kinnow, carrots in midday meal menu so that farmers are also benefitted.
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Holding a high-level review meeting regarding Punjab’s new agricultural policy on Thursday, the state Agriculture Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal discussed all aspects of the policy with the team of top officials and experts in the agriculture sector.
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The article is based on a primary survey carried out to ascertain the magnitude and determinants of deaths of farmers by suicide in six districts of Punjab. It recommends the provision of financial compensation to victim families, waiving of debt, and strengthening of public healthcare and education system as the main policy measures for addressing this tragic phenomenon.
'Livelihood And Food Security Of Country At Stake'
Point of View provides a 360-degree perspective on crucial farm issues. Here, CPI(M)’s Nilotpal Basu writes on the three new agri laws Nilotpal Basu Mar 03, 2021
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is evidently upset with the growing resonance in the country with the never-say-die movement of the Kisans. The vigorous united peaceful resistance is the rallying point of various sections of class differentiated peasantry in India. It is this remarkable unity which premises both the spread and depth of the resistance. Faced with this stonewall, the Prime Minister betrays his sense of frustration! Intervening in the debate on President’s address, he attributed the movement to FDI - Foreign Destructive Ideology.
The Threat of Corporate Interests Is a Key Unifying Factor in the Farmer Protests
While rich farmers, who were so far aloof from the struggle, have been compelled to join the small peasantry in the face of a larger corporate threat, it is yet to be seen if the protests will temper existing inequalities.
Farmers shout slogans at Singhu border during their Delhi Chalo protest march against the Centres new farm laws, in New Delhi, in New Delhi, Friday, December 11, 2020. Photo: PTI/Ravi Choudhary
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The present farmersâ struggle knocking at the doors of the capital is a culmination of many streams of ideologies, concerns and a wide class coalition. Like any dynamic mass movement, the articulations of the protestors have been developing and becoming eloquent by the day.