The minimum support price conundrum and Indian farming

MSP had no legal sanction when it was conceived and can also be challenged now

Farm laws repeal: Agri unions welcome move. But here’s why they won’t call off protest

The unions want minimum support price guarantee and the announcement to take effect through “due parliamentary procedures”

No sway for education to Haryana snake charmers: The Sapera community has been left far behind

Nearly 80% of the Saperas in urban areas are still illiterate

Government will repeal all 3 farm laws: Modi

I apologise to citizens, let us start afresh, the PM said

IN PHOTOS: Farmers observe 10 months of protest with 'Bharat Bandh'

Simply Put: Not a hunger strike

Simply Put: Gulliver in Lilliput

Simply Put: Farm Bill 2020

All you need to know about Universal Basic Income

Here’s a lowdown on what the basic income scheme is and what it entails

Distilled waste

A way to detoxify distillery wastes

Child labour on farms in Africa: It’s important to make a distinction between what’s harmful, and what isn’t

Reframing the debate about child labour in African agriculture, and how best to address it, is particularly timely

Scope of farmers’ movement greater than MSP, farm laws: Rakesh Tikait

“The movement is not limited only to Punjab-Haryana, farmers of entire country involved”

World Water Day: Fish from common ponds help fund weddings in this Maharashtra village

The small village got ownership and management rights of the three village ponds in 2011, 70 years after its independence

Government told Supreme Court south India didn't protest new farm laws; How true is that?

The five southern states have recorded at least 26 major protests since September 2020. Of them, December saw the maximum 12 protests.

Farmers’ organisations plan blockades, protests against 3 new agricultural laws

All-India road blockades on Nov 5 to be followed by state-level protests, march to Delhi

You may pay a steep price but does the farmer make any money?

A farming household of five earns Rs 221/day, less than a person’s daily minimum wage

Kisan Kranti Yatra: Another farmers’ protest goes awry

Around 30,000 farmers, who had been walking to the national capital for 10 days, were welcomed with lathis, water cannons and tear gas shells

Farmers reject Centre’s new MSP proposal; demand guarantee for all 23 crops

Offer limited to pulses, maize and cotton crops, key demand on MSP calculation left out

India’s deepening farm crisis: 76% farmers want to give up farming, shows study

Benefits of government schemes and policies go to big farmers, shows survey undertaken by CSDS on behalf of farmers’ association

Water, Marathwada women’s woe: Inclement weather affecting farmers’ mental health, social standing

Market does not support the farmers even if they manage to harvest the crops

Simply Put: The great divider

Simply Put: (Un)welcome Capital

Straw wealth

A new process to make fertilisers -- and more --from straw

International year of millets: Centre to work on decentralised processing & marketing

Themes for a comprehensive plate-to-farm millet food system proposed the People’s Convention on Millets for Millions

For all farming needs: How Kisan Credit Cards work

KCC, launched with fanfare by the Vajpayee govt, was to be a financial instrument to make things easier for farmers; do they?