Burdensome load

Laid-off tea workers fall back on forests in West Bengal

Fighting for a safer workplace

Workers often fail to get proper medical treatment because they are mostly ignorant of occupational diseases.

Coconut capital

Toddy tappers in Kerala fought off social stigma and repression only to fight new demons like the government's excise policy

Crisis brewing

Collapse of the former Soviet market and an indifferent attitude to quality clips Nilgiris tea industry

Peasant women list their woes to scientists

At a recent conference, women farm workers got a chance to discuss their problems with agricultural experts.

Consolidation against commoners

After land consolidation was introduced, the landless poor and agricultural labourers, who depended on common resources, faced tremendous problems

The flip side of agricultural growth in Madhya Pradesh

Agricultural growth rate figures in the state appear to be unrealistic if one considers farm suicides and increase in number of landless farm …

Farm fatale

Rise in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and other forms of cancer cases linked to farming activities

Centre in a fix over court ruling on minimum wage to NREGS workers

Workers in other states could take cue from Karnataka

MGNREGA wages should not be less than minimum wage of a state: expert panel

Panel headed by economists S Mahendra Dev also recommends linking wages to Consumer Price Index-Rural as cushion against inflation

Women in danger

Farmers shrink, labourers swell

Displacement, lack of jobs main reasons behind increase in farm labour

Different colours of green

How media has shaped people's understanding of environment

Peril in Brazil

Study shows pesticides double cancer risk in farm labour

Deadly solutions

To die, Warangal farmers have to no longer consume pesticides. A mere exposure is enough to kill them

Labour exit

Labour shortage in agriculture forces Indian farmers to innovate to stay afloat

Again, Centre puts on hold decision on bringing parity in MGNREGA, minimum wages

Finance Ministry has said that such parity is not possible as it would involve an additional burden of around Rs 10,000 crore on the exchequer

Farmers and smartphone politics

Can pre-poll sops like giving smart phones with internet connectivity to farmers increase farm income?

Hard work, but low wages for women farmers

Women farmers earn 22 per cent less than their male counterparts

Increase minimum wage by Rs 199, cut calorie intake by 300, suggests expert panel

Suggestions include different national minimum wages across different geographical regions in the country to suit local requirement

95 per cent women in India involved in unpaid labour

Report says involving women in the workforce can help achieve future aspirations that can boost India’s GDP by 27 per cent

Does Centre’s move to hike MGNREGA wages hold any value?

While this news might excite millions of rural workers, in reality, the workers will only be handed disappointment and pain

MNREGA wage hike less than minimum wage in 33 states

Nagaland is the only state where the wage rate is equal to or more than their minimum wage

Land reforms needed for Punjab’s marginalised farmers, farm workers: Study

Research shows that bigger the farm, greater are the consumption levels; also, caste-based discrimination becomes overt at higher levels of living

COVID-19: ‘Only a third of migrant workers getting relief measures’

At least 50 mln short-term circular migrants left out of any government identification process, according to IHD estimates