Tag: agriculture
GM mustard approval stirs a hornet’s nest and rings an eerie alarm
Reading Time: 6 minutes The GEAC’s recommendation for GM mustard cultivation has stirred a hornet’s rest, bringing even the RSS’s farmers’ wing against the BJP.
The Union Budget 2022-23 gives no reasons to the poor to be happy
Reading Time: 10 minutes The Union Budget 2022-23 didn’t announce anything significant for 85% Indians, which exhibits Modi’s unapologetic corporate appeasement policy.
Kisan-Mazdoor Mahapanchayat in Mumbai showed new dimensions of farmers’ protest
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Kisan-Mazdoor Mahapanchayat in Mumbai showed how Delhi’s farmers’ movement is expanding and has been raising new pro-people demands.
BKS’s protest on MSP is the RSS’s attempt to weaken the farmers’ movement
Reading Time: 3 minutes The BKS’s protest on MSP on September 8th is the RSS’s attempt to weaken the farmers’ movement by driving a wedge, especially before the Uttar Pradesh polls.
After chit fund scams, microfinance debt trap exploits Bengal villagers
Reading Time: 5 minutes The microfinance companies have trapped the poor villagers of West Bengal in their obnoxious debt trap as these people have no access to institutional credit.
Six months of the farmers’ protest at Delhi: now BKMF to strengthen SKM’s struggle
Reading Time: 3 minutes The formation of the Bharatiya Kisan Mazdoor Federation after six months of the farmers’ protest at Delhi will surely aid the Samyukt Kisan Morcha’s struggle.
Sinking potato price: A woe for north Bengal farmers
Reading Time: 3 minutes The falling potato price has become a curse for farmers of north Bengal districts who have invested huge amount to cultivate the crop.
Why should farmers protest farm laws all over India now? BKU leader explains
Reading Time: 4 minutes Bharatiya Kisan Union (Krantikari) Punjab president Surjeet Singh Phul explained why should farmers protest farm laws all over India now?
The paddy farmers of West Bengal: In a labyrinth of low MSP and accessibility
Reading Time: 5 minutes The paddy farmers of West Bengal are in an abysmal crisis due to lack of MSP and accessibility to the government’s procurement centres.
Many tales of corporate control over agriculture
Reading Time: 4 minutes The experiences of corporate control over agriculture globally show how farmers are ruined and the corporations enrich through such policies.
Modi’s interaction with the farmers exhibit his utmost frustration
Reading Time: 4 minutes Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interaction with the farmers was a poor attempt to hoodwink the people with fake narratives and propaganda.
News18 survey on farm reforms designed to promote Reliance’s cause
Reading Time: 3 minutes A recent News18 survey on farm reforms shamelessly tried to enforce the view that the majority of Indians support Modi’s farm reforms.
Potato cultivation in North Bengal: The analysis of a sheer crisis
Reading Time: 4 minutes Gloomy clouds hover over the lives of farmers involved in potato cultivation in North Bengal as input cost is soaring amid extreme volatility
The farmers’ protest in Delhi: Why farmers of other states not equally vocal?
Reading Time: 10 minutes Why the farmers’ protest in Delhi is only becoming a protest by north Indian farmers, while the farmers of other states are relatively quiet?
Dilli Chalo protest by farmers frightened the BJP and the Modi regime
Reading Time: 4 minutes Dilli Chalo protest by Punjab and Haryana farmers frightened the BJP and the Modi regime as it has potential to change the political course.
How the farm reforms will destroy India’s farmers and food security?
Reading Time: 9 minutes How Modi’s farm reform measures and dilution of Essential Commodities Act, 1955, will affect the farmers and food security of the poor?
Inside Modi’s two anti-farmer agriculture bills: A trap to rob farmers and people
Reading Time: 6 minutes What are the salient features of Modi’s two anti-farmer agriculture bills? We analysed the anti-poor provisions of these bills.
Will the farmers’ crusade against the two anti-farmer bills usher in a new dawn?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The two anti-farmer bills passed by Modi’s BJP in the Parliament has triggered large-scale protests. Can the farmers’ movements change India?
The anti-farmer farm sector reforms to ruin India’s agriculture for corporates
Reading Time: 4 minutes The farm sector reforms unleashed by the Modi regime through three ordinances will help the corporates profiteer at the cost of India’s farmers.
Farmers’ suffering due to lockdown intensify in UP due to lack of wheat MSP
Reading Time: 4 minutes In Uttar Pradesh the middle, small and marginal farmers’ suffering due to lockdown intensified as they don’t get MSP for wheat from private buyers.