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'PM, Sack Your Team on Agriculture'
12 Sep 2020
The BJP's own allies in Punjab and Haryana are opposed to the June 5 ordinances on agriculture that were promulgated without consulting states.
Tikender Singh Panwar
Migrant Workers Stuck in Quagmire
11 Jun 2020
Workers from UP, Bihar and Odisha are being contacted and are being offered bus journeys to travel back to a few cities in Punjab.
Newsclick Team
PM Modi Does Not Believe in Accountability to Media: P Sainath
11 May 2020
In his 6 years as Prime Minister of this country, Narendra Modi has not held a single open press conference where journalists are allowed to ask him questions.
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Agricultural Markets See Sharp Decline in Arrivals
24 Apr 2020
Professor Vikas Rawal of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU, talks about the decline in arrivals at agricultural markets or mandis across the country.
PTI
Women Are Single Largest Exclusion in India's Farmer Suicides Data: Sainath
01 Feb 2020
Terming NCRB statistics for female farmer suicides as "complete rubbish", the senior journalist said “even before the males committed suicides”, women were doing 60% of the work on the farm.
Shilpa Shaji
Farm Suicides: Under-reported Realities of Indian Women Farmers
30 Jan 2020
According to NCRB, as many as 3,53,803 farm suicides have taken place between 1995 and 2018 across the country. 85.81% of the deceased were male farmers, indicating that around 50,188 female farmers…
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Thousands of Farmers Protest Against Bolsonaro’s Indian Visit Across Country
25 Jan 2020
Bolsonaro’s stand on the disputes over the Indian sugar subsidies which had been placed before the WTO along with his repressive measures over the workers, peasantry, students, youth, students, women…
Shilpa Shaji
Indian Sugarcane Farmers’ Protest Intensifies Ahead of Bolsonaro’s Visit
22 Jan 2020
Brazil, the world’s largest producer of sugarcane and exporter of sugar, has challenged the support of Indian government to the sugarcane farmers across the country alleging that it violates the…
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Contract Farming and the Model Lease Law: Backdoor Entry for Corporations?
19 Jan 2020
In this fourth and final video of the four part series on 'Agricultural Markets in India', Professor Sukhpal Singh, of Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, lays out the basic conceptions…
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India’s e-NAM (National Agricultural Market) scheme: Bane or Boon?
18 Jan 2020
In this third video of the four part series on 'Agricultural Markets in India', Dr. Sudha Narayanan from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) explains the National Agricultural…