The Hindu Business Line – Online

Joint cooperatives, Bharat Bandh on the agenda of the meet

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha and the ten Central Trade Unions (CTUs) belonging to the Opposition camp will hold a joint meeting on Monday to devise the future course of the ongoing protests of farmers and workers. The meeting, according to leaders of the CTUs and SKM, will be significant as this is for the first time that they are meeting for jointly strategise the next course of the agitations.

The leaders said earlier they held two joint meetings in support of each other’s protests. “We would like to give some joint calls. We will discuss the possibilities of worker-peasant producing cooperatives ...

NewsClick – Online

Given that women have had lower mobility, even in terms of employment, due to the manner in which social constraints unequally impinge on them, their participation in the farm protests now may be attributed to their perception that the three farm laws will not only adversely aect employment and income, but will also increase food insecurity for women.

A striking facet of the ongoing farmers’ movement is the large-scale participation of women. Women, both farmers and otherwise, from dierent parts of the country have been actively participating in these protests, both at Delhi’s borders as well as in the various protests in a number of states. The estimated number of women participants at the protest sites at ...

NewsFirst – Online

The livelihoods of dairy farmers have fallen from bad to worse with the destruction of the forests in Rambakan Oya.

These Farmers in the area have no place to herd their cattle.

The main livelihood of the residents of the Mahaoya Divisional Secretariat is dairy farming.

According to these people, the dairy farmers of the Mahaoya divisional Secretariat contribute the highest amount of milk to the local dairy industry.

The Hindustan Times – Online

Global food prices rose for an eighth consecutive month in January to their highest level since July 2014, latest data from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)’s food price index showed, which is proving to be a boon for farmers but could also stoke domestic inflation. Higher food prices could complicate the country’s nascent economic recovery, analysts said.

Higher international prices of food commodities are spurring India’s food exports, but they will make India’s food imports costlier. The country, for instance, relies on imports to meet 70-74% of its vegetable or edible oils requirement.

Policy Forum – Online

India could be an agricultural giant, but its investment landscape needs a makeover – while contentious, its new laws provide that change, Raghbendra Jha writes.

Since November last year, ongoing protests have rocked India. Thousands of people, mainly from Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh, have blocked three major road entry points to the national capital, Delhi.

This has made going about their daily business onerous for people living in the region who normally need to work in Delhi, and essential supplies to the capital have had to be re-routed, causing considerable difficulties for those living in and around the city.

These difficulties reached a peak on 26 January – India’s Republic Day – when protestors entered Delhi on tractors and ...

The Tribune – Online

Indian agriculture is passing through a critical phase. Farmers are facing problems related to crop production, marketing and profitability. The new farm laws may enhance farm productivity, but these are bound to change the prevailing system. The ownership farming system is prevalent in Punjab, Haryana and other states as owned land forms a major part of operational landholdings. The model of the Green Revolution (GR) improved the economy of the farmers, but later their economic condition started deteriorating, along with the depletion of natural resources and environmental degradation. Capital-intensive technologies reduced work opportunities on the farm for labour. Globalisation policies pushed farmers into debt, depeasantisation and suicide. Every day, 28 farmers/farm labourers commit suicide (according to ...

YourStory – Online

In India’s much-talked-about startup ecosystem and its relatively new innovation-driven economy, if the late-2000s and early 2010s were about the rise of consumer internet and poster boys in ecommerce, foodtech, and mobility in India, and the mid-to-late 2010s, especially post-demonetisation, about fintech explosion, then surely this decade could be about the rise of tech-enabled agriculture.