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In Amritsar on December 11, farmers shout slogans before leaving for Delhi to protest against the agricultural laws.

Why farmers from Haryana and Punjab are expressing heightened anger over farm laws

Peasants in two States protest the Centre’s neglect of long-standing marketing arrangements crucial since the Green Revolution.
Soham Bhattacharya
At a protest against the farm Acts in Bengaluru on September 28.

How farm laws endanger the livelihoods of small-scale farmers

The three newly enacted laws, which threaten to annul the minimum support price, reflect governmental neglect for marginalised farmers.
Biplab Sarkar, , Soham Bhattacharya
A health worker sanitises a combine harvestor prior to the reaping of wheat in a field in Jalandhar on April 22.

Harvesting misery

The lockdown has accentuated inequalities in the post-harvesting season in Punjab. Poor peasants’ access to markets has been severely curtailed, while
Gaurav Bansal ,Soham Bhattacharya
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