Simply Put: The farmer’s tractor

Simply Put: Santa and the Grinch

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Simply Put: ‘Lazy’ farmers

Distressed but intelligent farmers

Voices of women from Dilli Chalo: We need equal rights as men farmers

A large contingent of women farmers marched along with their male counterparts at the Dilli Chalo protest on November 29-30 in Delhi. The women …

Farmers explain what brings them to the capital

Why did thousands of farmers take to the streets of New Delhi? Down To Earth turned the mike over to them

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

Enigma of the political class

Kerala farmers grow vanilla for profit

Thampi Thomas, an advocate-turned-planter of Kolenchery in south Kerala, sold raw vanilla beans for Rs 500 per kilogramme (kg) in 1999. During …

Simply Put: Farmers and the Chessplayer

Simply Put: Farmers’s safety net

Simply Put: What a New Deal!

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.

जग बीती: किसानों को मिली आजादी

छत्तीसगढ़ में दिखा किसानों के गांव बंद का असर

किसान संगठनों ने 8 जनवरी को गांव बंद का आह्वान किया था, इसका असर केवल छत्तीसगढ़ के गांवों में ही देखने को मिला 

In 4 years, farmers’ income has increased by just Rs 2,505 per month: NABARD report

Although the average farm income per month saw a rise in the last four years, it is still not enough to help farmers cope with the current …

Breaching the digital divide

Information technology can become a good development tool for the rural India. But can our villages be logged on to the infotech highway with …

Simply Put: Not a hunger strike

Farmers prepare for mega tractor rally on January 26

Simply Put: Gulliver in Lilliput

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

Himachal apple growers left high and dry as commission agents dupe them

The farmers are organising themselves to press for a key law supposed to protect them, to be implemented properly

Protest over port