Farmers from Tamil Nadu join the ongoing protest against the new farm laws, at Ghazipur border in New Delhi.
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Farmers on their tractors during the ongoing protest against the new farm laws, at Ghazipur border in New Delhi.
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Farmers during the ongoing protest against the new farm laws, at Ghazipur border in New Delhi.
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Farmers on their tractors during the ongoing protest against the new farm laws, at Ghazipur border in New Delhi.
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The site of farmers ongoing agitation over the new farm laws, at Ghazipur border in New Delhi.
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The site of farmers ongoing agitation over the new farm laws, at Ghazipur border in New Delhi.
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The site of farmers ongoing agitation over the new farm laws, at Ghazipur border in New Delhi.
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Farmers stage a protest against Centre's farm reform laws, in Bahadurgarh.
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Farmers hold the Tricolor as they ride on a tractor during their protest against Centre's farm reform laws, on the eve of 72nd Republic Day, in Jaipur.
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Farmers participate in 'Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha' at Azad Maidan, in Mumbai.
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A farmer holds the Tricolor during their ongoing protest against the new farm laws, at Ghazipur border in New Delhi.
PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary
BKU spokesperson Rakesh Tikait along with farmers during their ongoing agitation against Centre's farm reform laws at Ghazipur border in New Delhi.
PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary
A artist paints a wall during their farmers' ongoing agitation over the new farm laws, at Singhu border in New Delhi.
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Police attempt to stop farmers as they participate in a protest march, organised by Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha, from Azad Maidan towards Raj Bhavan to submit a memorandum to the G...
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Farmers assemble at Azad Maidan to participate in the 'Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha' in Mumbai.
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Farmers assemble at Azad Maidan to participate in the 'Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha' in Mumbai.
Photo by Dinesh Parab/Outlook
Farmers assemble at Azad Maidan to participate in the 'Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha' in Mumbai.
Photo by Dinesh Parab/Outlook
Farmers assemble at Azad Maidan to participate in the 'Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha' in Mumbai.
Photo by Dinesh Parab/Outlook
Farmers sit on their tractors after arriving at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border for Tuesday's tractor rally in New Delhi.
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Farmers sit on their tractors after arriving at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border for Tuesday's tractor rally in New Delhi.
No morcha is allowed in south Mumbai, the police said, and allowed only select few representatives of the farmers to follow the court order and visit Raj Bhavan
Kamta Nishad had gone to irrigate his field on Saturday and upon returning, he became unconscious and died even before he could be taken to a hospital.
After 70 days of their sit-in demonstration and post 11 rounds of ‘failed talks’ between farmers and the government, unions now plan to step up their protests.
The summary of their responses revealed that the need of the hour is not cutting-edge technological implementation but the formation of more robust mechanism for remunerative price of their produce.
'The farmers' unions participated in the discussion and gave their frank opinion including suggestions to improve the implementation of Acts,' a statement said.
China has for the first time stressed on the need to strengthen the homegrown seed industry and is developing a blueprint that guides the country's agricultural sector
The entrenched male bias reflected in the SC’s words is part of a collective larceny. India harms itself by keeping women farmers bereft of land, information, credit, technology.
Missing in common images of the 'kisan', not counted by economists, not found on property papers. Recent events put the focus on the silent workforce of our farms.
Shelving the enforcement of the new farm laws, until amendments are decided upon, is the way forward to end the deadlock created due to farmers' protest.
The Centre underestimated farmers’ grievances and is unwilling to climb down and lose face. Its only hope is a chink in the impregnable phalanx of the protestors.
NH44…London, Sydney, California. The farm protests of 2020 are far more inclusive, pan-India, even global—than those of the 1940s and ’80s. Only constant: the State’s betrayal.
Three key farm laws have dramatically unleashed new battle-lines across the country. But the problems afflicting Indian agriculture remain basic: lack of water, credit, declining soil fertility, the tiny size of farm holdings and market. All of them need a new solution.
Punjab was the pioneer, poster state of the Green Revolution…those days are long gone. Is it really only terrorism and drugs that displaced it? Or was it excess farming?