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Neelambaran A
TN This Week: Farmers to Intensify Struggle, Sugarcane Farmers Demand Pending Dues from Sugar Mills, IMA Protest Against AYUSH Nod for Mixopathy
12 Dec 2020
The Supreme Court’s judgment on December 8 upholding the land acquisition notification for the Chennai-Salem Green Corridor has left the farmers in the western districts of the state dismayed.
Newsclick Report
MSP, Debt Crisis: Why Farmers in Western UP Are Protesting Against Farm Laws
30 Nov 2020
With the latest farm laws advising contract farming, the farmers believe that it would altogether deprive them from their most prized possession, land.
Neelambaran A
TN This Week: Cyclone Nivar Causes Severe Crop Damages, North Chennai Residents Allege Neglect, Over 50,000 Detained During Nov 26 Strike
28 Nov 2020
The farmers in affected districts have suffered severe losses as paddy, sugarcane, and banana were destroyed by the winds and heavy rain. Fishermen in the coastal villages were affected as they…
Neelambaran A
TN This Week: Dalit Women Panchayat President Face Discrimination, COVID-19 Deaths Cross 10K, EPS to Lead AIADMK in Assembly Election
10 Oct 2020
The past week also saw protests by farmers and agricultural workers across the state, demanding insurance money, increase in the number of days' work and wages.
Saurav Kumar
17 Years After Shut Down, Motihari Sugar Mill Workers Await Justice and Salaries
25 Aug 2020
As the Bihar Assembly elections draw closer, the long neglected issue of shut sugar mills has again come to the fore.
Rabindra Nath Sinha
COVID-19 Impact on Sugarcane Production, Maharashtra May Face Labour Scarcity for Harvesting
21 Aug 2020
In Maharashtra and Karnataka, the second and third largest producer of sugar in the country, production is set to see an estimated increase upto 60% and 40%, respectively.
Abdul Alim Jafri
Meerut: Sugarcane Farmers in Distress After Mills Shut Down Without Clearing Dues Worth Rs 3,050 Crore
03 Jun 2020
According to the Sugarcane (Control) Order 1966, factories must pay the farmers in full within 14 days of taking the crop for crushing.
Abdul Alim Jafri
‘Borrowing to Feed my Family’: Govt. Dues to Sugarcane Farmers in UP Still Unpaid
06 May 2020
Despite sugar being an essential commodity and the government distributing it to the poor, sugarcane growers have not been paid in months.
Neelambaran A
TN this Week: Anti-CAA Conference in Chennai, Pondicherry Univ Students on Indefinite Hunger Strike and NEET Impersonation Arrests Continue
29 Feb 2020
NewsClick brings a round-up of the developments in the state this week.
Rabindra Nath Sinha
Why Anti-India Complaints in WTO on Sugar Subsidy May Remain Unresolved
14 Feb 2020
With functioning of WTO’s dispute settlement body in limbo, farmers’ outfits have written to PM Modi, raising concern over the impact of an adverse verdict on cane growers.