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Unions warn of further action over non-payment of rise agreed in 2018, as hundreds of Assam tea estates close
Over 400,000 workers on Indian tea plantations that supply the world’s largest tea companies have gone on strike over the government’s failure to implement a promised daily wage increase (...)
In the 25 years of my involvement with the student and peasant movements, last week’s Pratirodh Diwas or Resistance Day against the Union government’s three Anti-Farmer Acts has been by far the farmers’ most widespread agitation.
A call by the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (...)
In an interview with The Wire, Vijoo Krishnan of the AIKS says that the creation of new trade areas without appropriate government regulation and price intelligence is the government effectively abdicating its responsibility.
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government’s recent moves to reform the (...)
All India Kisan Sangarsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) has bitterly criticized the Prime Minister for openly inviting MNCs and Corporate to freely loot the labour of Indian farmers. In a Press Statement released by the pan-India farmers body comprising of 250 farmers’ organisations, it (...)
The possibility of a trade deal between India and the United States (US) is being discussed again. The timing of it is predictably before the presidential elections in the US in November 2020. Trade deals have figured in President Trump’s campaign speeches, including the one at the Republican (...)
What is the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant economic lockdown on rural India? Has the COVID-19 pandemic further accentuated the agrarian crisis? This video explores the various ways in which the pandemic has impacted agricultural production, prices, incomes, supply and demand (...)
• All India protest action and assertion of forests rights by movements on July 22nd
• Government should withdraw the Forest Amendment Act and effectively implement Forest Rights Act
• A joint protest by forests and land rights movements at Sansad marg, New Delhi on 28th November. New Delhi, 2 (...)
There is a vast thicket of challenges that the new government will face in ensuring farmers get remunerative prices for their crops.
Few would argue that no bigger challenge awaits the new Narendra Modi government than raising the incomes of India’s farmers.
The last five years saw large scale (...)
Irrigation politics, caste coalition competitors and money power – all three factors play an influential role.
A recent pre-poll survey, conducted days before the first round of voting for the Lok Sabha election, reported farming distress to be a “very real” issue among 10,010 respondents from (...)
Farmers sued for allegedly growing potatoes used in Lay’s crisps without permission
PepsiCo has faced a backlash after suing four Indian farmers who allegedly grew a patented strain of potatoes used in its Lay’s crisps without the company’s permission.
The company, which originally sought about (...)
“Modi Sarkar Murdabad! Murdabad! Murdabad!” (Down with the Modi government! Down! Down!)
This was one of the slogans that reverberated in the streets of New Delhi as tens of thousands of farmers marched through the Indian capital in the last two days of November. The protesters were demanding (...)
The agricultural reforms increased crop production but caused the problems that require stubble burning and pollution, writes Siddharth Singh in a new book.
Contrary to popular perception in urban India, residue burning is not an age-old practice. The practice – at this magnitude, frequency and (...)
On the occasion of Santoshi Kumari’s death anniversary, the Right To Food Campaign has issued a statement, in which it has put forth certain demands to stop starvation deaths in the state.
New Delhi: In the wake of starvation deaths in Jharkhand, the Right To Food Campaign has issued a (...)
The state has an opportunity to re-build a strong plantation sector with the right set of policies for the rest of the country to emulate.
Tragedies sometimes bring out the worst in us. Many of us received absurd WhatsApp forwards warning us about blindly donating to help Kerala flood victims. (...)
A government social audit conducted in April had found that 96.9% of ration card holders surveyed preferred the older system.
New Delhi: Close to ten months after it was launched, the Jharkhand government has said that it will be immediately terminating the direct benefits transfer (DBT) pilot (...)
The government sees ownership of land as necessary for one to be considered a ’farmer’, but patriarchal norms oppose inheritance to woman, leaving them unable to access benefits and rights.
On July 24, the minister of agriculture and farmers’ welfare responded to this Lok Sabha question, “Whether (...)
Mamata Banerjee has threatened to cancel the land leases of tea estates if they fail to run properly. She also stated the intention of her government to recommend Rs. 176 as the daily minimum wage for tea garden workers. It is Rs. 159 a day currently. This comes in the wake of a number of tea (...)
While three-fourths of all women in the country are association with agricultural work, women accounted for only about 15 of the 1,500 farmers gathered at the march.
New Delhi: The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), comprising 200 farmers’ organisations from across the (...)
Using MGNREGA funds to subsidise farm labour is a recipe for disaster. It will greatly bring down the poverty reduction impact of the programme, harm the construction of much-needed rural infrastructure and dramatically diminish the labourers’ bargaining power vis-à-vis the farmers.
At the (...)
Imagine a democratic protest where a million farmers, labourers and others march to the capital and compel discussion of the exploding crisis of the countryside in a special three-week session of Parliament
India’s agrarian crisis has gone beyond the agrarian.
It’s a crisis of society. Maybe (...)
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