After a meeting with farmer leaders from Western Uttar Pradesh at Vidhan Sabha on Sunday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal called the Centre’s new farm laws “death warrant for farmers” and said these laws will lead farming under the control of “a few corporates”. “A detailed discussion took place with farmers from Western Uttar Pradesh … Read more
In the budget presented today, India’s Agri Credit Target was raised to Rs 16.5 lakh crore. 1.54 crore farmers have benefited from MSP in paddy and wheat in FY21 vs 1.24 crore YoY, it was announced. Amount paid to farmers for wheat in FY21 was Rs 75,060 crore vs Rs 62,802 crore in FY20, and … Read more
NEW DELHI: A farmers‘ body on Saturday moved the Supreme Court seeking impleadment in the pending matters pertaining to new farm laws, against which several farmer unions are staging protests at Delhi borders, saying these reforms are “beneficial” to enable increased income and growth of agriculture. In a letter petition sent to the apex court, … Read more
It is for policymakers to decide whether a ‘fair’ guaranteed income to the top 200,000 farmers of Punjab Haryana — remember, MSP is not subject to market forces and is like a price set by a monopolist — is to place them among the richest earners in India. Synopsis The Punjab farmer has the lowest … Read more
New Delhi: Resolute in their demands for the repeal of three new farm laws and a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) for crops, protesting farmer unions on Friday said they will have to take firm steps if the government does not take a decision in their favour in the next meeting scheduled for … Read more
Very few farmers from Uttar Pradesh are participating in the protests against new farm laws, chief minister Yogi Adityanath said in an interview to Aman Sharma and Vatsala Gaur while slamming the opposition for “misleading the farmers” and “fighting the battle of middlemen and brokers”. Defending the state law against religious conversions, he said it … Read more
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Kisan Union (Lok Shakti) has moved the Supreme Court challenging the three new farm laws, against which various farmer unions are staging protest at several border points of Delhi, and sought impleadment in the matter pending in the apex court. In an application seeking impleadment in the pending petition, Bharatiya Kisan Union … Read more
NEW DELHI: Farmer unions protesting against the three agri laws on Saturday said they will decide their next course of action in the next two-three days, after the Supreme Court earlier this week pointed out it was thinking of setting up an “impartial and independent” panel of agriculture experts and peasants’ unions to resolve the … Read more
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan farmers protesting against the Centre’s new farm laws continued to block the Delhi-Jaipur national highway at Shahjahanpur in Alwar district on Monday as police stopped them from marching towards Delhi. With the police stopping them from proceeding towards the national capital along the state’s border with Haryana, the farmers camping at Jaisinghpur-Khera … Read more
The present farmer protests at the outskirts of Delhi are a turning point for the Modi government, irrespective of the resolution of this crisis. If the government gives in to the farmers it opens itself to further pressure from farmers, labour unions and PSU employees, its reform process gets put on the back burner and … Read more