Agriculture

State of farmers' protests

Farmer protests continue to be at the centre stage with farmers in at least 15 states taking to the streets. There are three broad reasons for this growing discontent: government's failure to safeguard farmers against crop loss, fair price for their produce and forceful farmland acquisitions for developmental projects

 
By Kiran Pandey, Rajit Sengupta
Published: Tuesday 05 June 2018

State of Agriculture: farmers' protests

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