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A farmer belonging to Erukkattur village in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvarur district trying to salvage the paddy crop in his inundated field, a file picture. Millions of farmers have not benefited from the government’s crop insurance scheme.

Raw deal for farmers

The Budget lacks any serious effort to address the main issues of unemployment, agrarian distress and falling incomes, revealing a high level of offic

The second kisan long march by farmers from across Maharashtra demanding farm loan waivers, minimum support price, irrigation facilities and provision of pension. Starting February 21, the farmers covered over 165 kilometres on foot from Nashik to Mumbai.

Everybody loves a farmer

The cash transfer schemes the Narendra Modi government and several State governments have announced to woo the peasantry ahead of the election, like

TOPSHOT - An Indian farmer with his produce waits to negotiate with traders at a wholesale vegetable market in Hyderabad on February 1, 2018.

The Indian government is focusing on the agricultural sector in its annual budget, released on February 1. / AFP PHOTO / NOAH SEELAM

Illusions of bounty

Unveiled in the context of a spectacular collapse of agricultural commodity prices last year, the Budget adds insult to injury.

2.Kisan Mukti Yatra at Bikramgarh, Rohtas District, Bihar, 3rd November, 2017

Bitter harvest

Farmers, hit hard by demonetisation, are still to recover from the catastrophic collapse in agricultural product prices, but they are determined to fi

Odisha, VISAKHAPATNAM, ANDHRA PRADESH, 23/07/2013: Dongria Kondhs, a primitive tribal group from neighbouring villages, brave the rain as OBC villagers reject proposed mining in Niyamgiri hills at a Gram sabha at Tadijhola near Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district in Odisha on July 23, 2013. Photo: K.R. Deepak

Against the violence of ‘development’

Corporate interests are trying to grab enormous tracts of land with the support of the state, but their attempts are being met with an unprecedented u

Indian farmers of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) listen to a speech during a protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Madhaya Pradesh state government in New Delhi on June 15, 2017.
Madhya Pradesh is one of several largely agricultural Indian states that have suffered disappointing rains and crop failures in recent years. Thousands of farmers in the state governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have for days been calling for loan waivers and a floor price for crops as economic and weather conditions pinch profits. / AFP PHOTO / Prakash SINGH

Rallying point

The farmers’ protests have provided the basis to build a broad consensus for a struggle against the policies that have caused agrarian distress and th

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