Is legal assurance of MSP for farmers viable? What are its implications?
Consumer-centric approach by the government has had a considerable impact on farmers
Simply Put: Minimum Support Price
Farmers in at least 65 countries rose up in protest since January 2023. Here’s why
Producers in South America, Europe, India, Nepal demand better prices and policies
Simply Put: Farmers Protest 2024
Simply Put: Vital organs of society
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
Simply Put: In a foreign land?
European farmers are angry: Addressing root causes would overcome polarisation
Most farmers at Brussels appeared to agree that a food system that treats food like any other tradable commodity was at the root of all ills
Mustard prices continue to stay below MSP; industry body urges government intervention
Farmers fear that prices will slip further with arrival of new mustard crop by next month, as they expect record harvest
Centre hikes sugarcane fair and remunerative price amid farmers’ protest
FRP usually announced in June as sugar season starts from October; new price hikes by Rs 25 at Rs 340 per quintal
Agriculture, fisheries take spotlight at WTO meet in Abu Dhabi
India backs permanent solution for public stockholding of food grains even as developing nations attack it
The future of Indian agriculture
There is a need for work on cost-effective technologies with environmental protection and on conserving our natural resources
For a day, thousands of scientists halt work to protest racism
The aim was to stop business-as-usual for a day and initiate long-term action plan — protesting, educating themselves on issues faced …
Three days to go before 2022 ends; farmers’ income yet to double
Income of farmers in some states decreased from 2015-16 to 2018-19, new standing committee report shows
Tribal farmers to harvest second bamboo crop after earning right to sell
Here’s the success story of people in 16 villages of Rajasthan who put up a fight against the district administration to be able to sell …
Rajasthan government announces farm loan waivers, but doubts remain
A section of the protestors point loopholes in the state’s letter and claim their demands have not been accepted
Noida landfill protests: Confusion among officials troubles residents
While a two-year-old response to an RTI query said the site had been cancelled for the waste-to-energy project, a recent public notice called it …
Why Jammu’s transgender community hit the streets in protest
Protestors alleged police inaction on the complaints of abduction and forced castration of 4 transgender persons
Centre offers to put farm laws on ‘hold’ for a year
Farmers will study proposal and get back; Centre also withdraws pleas against tractor rally
Ecuador annuls austerity decree, restores fuel subsidy
Decree 833 will be replaced with a new one that contains mechanisms to focus resources on who needs it most, said President Lenín Moreno
After a 23-year-long battle, Tamil Nadu's Sterlite plant finally shuts down, permanently
On Monday evening, the state government passed a government order to shut down Vedanta group's Serlite copper smelting plant permanently
Anti-Sterlite stir: Tension continues as kin of those killed don’t get dead bodies
Activists say the government plans to cremate the protestors who died in police firing on its own
Anti-Sterlite stir: Parts of Tuticorin return to normal, but activists say it’s far from over
Despite a court order, ban on internet has not been lifted and activists claim police are harassing people
Protest against dengue at Delhi Secretariat
Protesters demanded that the Delhi government should declare dengue an epidemic and ensure that no hospital refuses to admit a dengue patient
A visit to Claude Monet’s Lilies and Van Gogh’s wheat fields: reflections on our eternal bond with Nature
An intimate connection with art and the environment will make societies more ethical and conscious and help us remember the importance of valuing …