Topic
Farm laws
From the archive
Reporting from earlier editions of The Agrotech Daily. Figures, prices and policies may have changed since.
- Policy & trade, IndiaCorporate farming: misleading picture painted by the Indian governmentArgues that experience in the US, France and elsewhere shows corporate farming harms small farmers, and that India's new farm laws ignore those lessons.
- Policy & trade, Uttar PradeshCases against 162 farmers dropped by UP govtUttar Pradesh told the Allahabad High Court it had dropped proceedings against 162 Sitapur farmers served notices for bonds of up to Rs 10 lakh over the farm law protests.
- Policy & trade, IndiaFarmers demand guaranteed law of assured MSP for 26 cropsAfter rejecting the government's written proposal, farm unions demanded repeal of the farm laws and a law guaranteeing procurement of 26 crops at MSP, and opened toll plazas for 24 hours.
- Policy & trade, IndiaSC brings discarded PIL challenging Centre’s farm laws into reconsiderationThe Supreme Court restored lawyer M L Sharma's PIL arguing that Parliament had no power to legislate on agriculture, a state subject, after earlier dismissing it.
- Policy & trade, IndiaProtesting unions seek unconditional release of arrested farmers; send plea to the PresidentThe Samyukta Kisan Morcha has written to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking the unconditional release of arrested farmers and the withdrawal of what it calls false cases.
- Policy & trade, India‘Agriculture can’t be run sitting in Delhi’ says Sharad PawarNCP chief Sharad Pawar criticised the Centre for not consulting state governments before passing the three farm laws, saying agriculture cannot be run by sitting in Delhi.
- Policy & trade, IndiaFarm unions seek help from UNHRC and intervention on farmers’ arrestsThe farm unions' legal cell wrote to the UN human rights office in India seeking intervention over arrests of protesting farmers and internet shutdowns at protest sites.
- Policy & trade, IndiaRakesh Tikait to travel to 5 states to gather support for the farmers’ protestBKU leader Rakesh Tikait planned a March tour of farmers' meetings in Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana to build support for the protest.
- Policy & trade, IndiaTalks between government and farmers remained inconclusive for the ninth time in a rowTalks between the Centre and about 40 farmer unions again ended without agreement, with the government ready to amend the farm laws but not repeal them. The next round is set for January 19.
- Policy & trade, BiharBihar’s blueprint of abolishing the mandi system in 2006 is not a beacon of hopeFarmers in Begusarai say Bihar's abolition of the mandi system left them without fair prices, storage or irrigation, offering a case study for the new farm laws.