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How Women Are Driving India s Massive Farmer Protests
A growing number of women farmers, students, ASHA workers and others have joined the demonstrations. Others support the effort by staying home to tend family farms.
NEW DELHI For Jaspreet Kaur and Gurleen Kaur, both in their 40s, this is their first protest.
Farz banta hai (This is their responsibility), they feel.
On Nov. 26, farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh marched towards Delhi for the Dilli Chalo protest. Above all, the farmers demand the repeal of three laws: the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020 and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020. They also want assurances on minimum support prices.
Appealing to the Farmers Union leaders to continue dialogue
and to find an amicable solution, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh
Tomar along with Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal outlined the various
suggestions that have been given to farmers in a proposal to address their
concerns about the Farm Acts.
They were speaking to media at a Press Conference in New
Delhi on Thursday.
The Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation)
Act 2020 and Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance
and Farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities Amendment Act 2020 are
the biggest agricultural reforms in the country so far. The reforms will
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