Simply put: What’s essential for farmers

Simply Put: Farm Bills & U-turn

Simply Put: Sees no farmer, hear no farmer, speak no farmer

Simply Put: Farmers, protests & a wake-up call

Simply Put: What a New Deal!

Simply put: Indian farmers’s (para) freedom

Farmers’ protests increased five times in India from 2017-2021: CSE

The number of protests rose to 165 across 22 states in 2020-21 from 34 across 15 states in 2017

Simply Put: What makes farmers so firm in protest

Thousands of farmers have thronged the borders of Delhi to have their say against laws that would affect their lives and livelihood.

Simply Put: Farm Bill 2020

Farmers’ organisations plan blockades, protests against 3 new agricultural laws

All-India road blockades on Nov 5 to be followed by state-level protests, march to Delhi

After-effects of new farm laws: Why is there chaos in the mandis

The first kharif season after deregulation of the agriculture market is underway. The government has started procuring paddy at minimum support …

Future of Indian agriculture and small farmers: Role of policy, regulation and farmer agency

The distress among small farmers in India is market-driven to a large extent in both ways — too much protection (minimum support price) or …

Onion crisis: ‘High time Union govt invested in low-cost storage’

Country director, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics talks to DTE on onion price volatality, amendement to …

We are not going anywhere: Farmers at Singhu border ready for long haul

Potestors united and clear on demand: Repeal of 3 ‘black’ agricultural laws and ammendment to Essential Commodities Act

India’s agrarian distress: A paradigm shift

Farmers are willing to switch from thirsty crops like paddy. They need a stable price for alternatives to make diversification a reality

Put farm laws on hold or we will: SC to Centre

Farmers' unions decline apex court's proposal to set up talks with a committee

Denying MSP legal guarantee threat to India’s food security 

The common apprehensions on the operation of MSP legal guarantee are irrational, promoted by administration & business lobbies  

Book excerpt: How the ‘Pagri Sambhal Jatta’ Movement resonates with the 2020 anti-Farm Bills agitation

The century-old movement by Bhagat Singh’s uncle was against unjust British efforts to exploit Punjab’s farmers, notes author …

Bring law to guarantee minimum support price: Bharatiya Kisan Sangh

RSS organ voices opposition to provisions of recent farm laws after farmers across spectrum hit streets in protest

The mandi system will eventually collapse: Rakesh Tikait on new farm laws

Bhartiya Kisan Union spokesperson questions why Narendra Modi govt didn’t consult stakeholders before pushing 3 contentious Bills through …

The minimum support price conundrum and Indian farming

MSP had no legal sanction when it was conceived and can also be challenged now

India’s agrarian distress: How dissent has been on the rise

At least 50 major protests were reported across 20 Indian states in 9 months between January and September 2020

Farmers reject Centre’s new MSP proposal; demand guarantee for all 23 crops

Offer limited to pulses, maize and cotton crops, key demand on MSP calculation left out

Why the new farm laws will not level the playing field

Creation of unregulated private points of sale will only ensure that the produce continues to be sold as before — at below MSP and without …

Farm laws effect: Farmers’ protests in India increased 38% in 2020 after 3 years of decline

Number of protests increased in 12 states, with Jharkhand leading the tally