India Today – Online

Between the ongoing farmers’ protests highlighting cries of no proper remuneration for what the “annadata” (food provider) produces and India’s 103rd position in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) lies Indian agriculture’s third shocking reality farm produce wastage.

Statistics back Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s oft repeated line on India’s needs to move up fast on capability to store and distribute farm produce. If India spends almost Rs 1.5 lakh crore on cheap and free food grain each year, a study in 2016 estimated that Rs 92,651 crore is lost annually in farm produce wastage.

India CSR – Online

Are you aware that more than 70% of rural women are engaged in agriculture and farming? Women are responsible for about 65% of farming-related work across regions, but due to the patriarchal society and ignorance, their role is rather left invisible for the rest of the world.

As per the National Policy for Farmers – 2007, Definition of a Farmer:

“For the purpose of this Policy, the term “farmer” will refer to a person actively engaged in the economic and/or livelihood activity of growing crops and producing other primary agricultural commodities and will include all agricultural operational holders, cultivators, agricultural labourers, sharecroppers, tenants, poultry and livestock rearers, fishers, beekeepers, gardeners, pastoralists, non-corporate planters ...

India CSR – Online

The agriculture sector employs half of India’s 1.35 billion people and contributes nearly 15 percent of India’s $2.7 trillion economy. Nearly 80 percent of the farmers in India belongs to Marginal(less than 1 ha) or small farmers (1–2 ha) category. Every day there is news coming on farmers suicides from different parts of the country.

Given growing debt, poor harvests, and draught, farmers are coming suicide in despair. The condition of the most of the farmers is horrible. The Indian agricultural sector and farmers have been in a deep crisis over the past few years. A number of factors are known to have contributed to this agrarian crisis. There has been a steep rise in the ...

Eurasia – Online

The surge of wealth of Indian billionaires and the Modi led BJP government’s onslaught on poor, marginalised and farmers continue to grow simultaneously as masses face annihilating pandemic of Coronavirus. There is 90 % rise of Indian billionaire’s wealth over last one decade. It is not accidental. The Modi government has reduced corporate income tax from 30 to 22 percent starting from the financial year 2019/20. It has also provided many other opportunities and incentives and foregoing exemptions to corporations. The new corporates established in India after 1st October 2019 will only pay 15 percent. The Modi government further pursuing economic and agricultural policies to further marginalised the poor farmers and empower the wallet of his Hindutva ...

News18 – Online

Results of a wide-ranging nationwide survey released on Monday by News 18 network, India’s largest media company, show that the government’s farm reform laws have received overwhelming support from across the country, especially agrarian states that stand to benefit from these laws.

The majority of respondents of the #News18FarmReformSurvey—conducted in 22 states and Union Territories—want the ongoing protests led by farmers of Punjab who are against the farm reform laws to be called off. The survey was carried out by reporters of News18 network.

The survey, which posed questions ranging from support to the farm reforms to choice for farmers to awareness of the new laws among 2412 respondents, showed that reform and modernisation in agriculture has ...