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A farmer sits on a drum in front of police barricades, at a protest site at the Shambhu border, en route to New Delhi, on February 23.

Farmers’ Protest 2.0 — The Lede

Farmers’ protest 2.0: On the difficult road to MSP

The movement for a legally backed MSP has the potential to give the opposition a second wind before the Lok Sabha election.

In 2011, ICAR started the National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture.

Research on climate change is 40 per cent of ICAR’s budget: S.K. Chaudhari

ICAR’s Deputy Director General of Natural Resources Management says farmers are prepared to adopt new technologies to ensure climate resilience.

Rishika Pardikar

Rice: A political crop in India

Given the already high levels of global hunger, lifting the ban on non-basmati white rice would provide much needed support in humanitarian terms.

Onion crisis: Maharashtra farmers are paying the price for a misguided attempt to control inflation

The Centre lifted the ban on onion exports but imposed steep export duties, which have made Indian onions too expensive for the global market.

A farmer pumping water from the Bendsura reservoir in drought-affected Beed district, an April 2019 picture. Maharashtra leads the country in farmer suicides, but political developments, rather than farmer suicides, have hogged media and social media attention.

State Scan — The Lede

Shifting sands: How power plays and party defections are costing Maharashtra its economic edge

India’s wealthiest State faces multiple crises, each of which needs to be addressed to return it to its lost glory.

Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana: A harvest of discontent in Maharashtra

Farmers in the State are reaping more frustration than compensation from the country’s flagship agricultural insurance scheme.

A guide to climate-smart cooking

Our traditional foodways are a model for how to live in a climate-risked world. First Food: Future of Taste explains just how.

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A farmer holding chains shouts slogans during a protest demanding minimum support prices (MSP) for all crops on the outskirts of Amritsar on February 20, 2024.

Explained: Five unfounded objections against minimum support price

Most arguments against ensuring fair prices for farmers are based on misconceptions and prejudices.

Kavitha Kuruganti ,Kirankumar Vissa,Yogendra Yadav

One of the four commemorative postage stamps issued on the inauguration of the republic on January 26, 1950.

From backbone to mere backdrop: How farmers disappear from stamps as priorities shift

Once a vibrant avenue for promoting farm policies, postal stamps now feature cultural motifs, sidelining the pivotal role farmers play in nation build

A farmer sits on a drum in front of police barricades, at a protest site at the Shambhu border, en route to New Delhi, on February 23.

Farmers’ protest 2.0: On the difficult road to MSP

The movement for a legally backed MSP has the potential to give the opposition a second wind before the Lok Sabha election.

A Nihang or a Sikh warrior rests on a makeshift barricade of sandbags at Shambhu on the Punjab-Haryana border on February 23.

Editor’s Note: India’s war against its own farmers

The government’s ferocious reaction is a naked admission of its extreme fear of its own people, its fear of the potency of peaceful protest.

Hannan Mollah, Vice-President, All India Kisan Sabha

‘There is nothing called non-political’: Hannan Mollah

The AIKS vice president explains why the Samyukta Kisan Morcha did not support the breakaway faction’s “Dilli Chalo” call.

T.K. Rajalakshmi

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