Tag: agrarian crisis
Autumn in West Bengal: The season of pain and not celebration
Reading Time: 4 minutes Autumn in Bengal has been stereotyped as per the romanticised version peddled by poets and authors for ages, ignoring the crisis it brings.
After chit fund scams, microfinance debt trap exploits Bengal villagers
Reading Time: 5 minutes The microfinance companies have trapped the poor villagers of West Bengal in their obnoxious debt trap as these people have no access to institutional credit.
Government proposal to resume dialogue with protesting farmers is a hoax call
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Modi regime’s proposal to resume dialogue with protesting farmers is a bait to buy peace and time before the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
Not just the BJP: The TMC dupes West Bengal farmers too
Reading Time: 3 minutes Just like the BJP, the TMC dupes West Bengal farmers too by remaining nonchalant regarding the burning issues of agriculture sector of Bengal
Striking hard: 12-hour-long Bharat Bandh by SKM receives overwhelming support
Reading Time: 2 minutes The 12-hour-long Bharat Bandh on March 26th called by the farmers’ body SKM against the Modi regime is striking hard the BJP’s domination.
Modi and his US masters destroying agriculture and food security of India
Reading Time: 6 minutes How Modi, following his US-based masters’ diktat, is destroying India’s agriculture and food security to help big corporates to profiteer?
The paddy farmers of West Bengal: In a labyrinth of low MSP and accessibility
Reading Time: 5 minutes The paddy farmers of West Bengal are in an abysmal crisis due to lack of MSP and accessibility to the government’s procurement centres.
Many tales of corporate control over agriculture
Reading Time: 4 minutes The experiences of corporate control over agriculture globally show how farmers are ruined and the corporations enrich through such policies.
Modi’s interaction with the farmers exhibit his utmost frustration
Reading Time: 4 minutes Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interaction with the farmers was a poor attempt to hoodwink the people with fake narratives and propaganda.
The farmers’ movement against agriculture reforms aggravated Modi’s crisis
Reading Time: 4 minutes The farmers’ movement against agriculture reforms has become a dilemma for the BJP as it can neither oppose their demands nor reject them.
Potato cultivation in North Bengal: The analysis of a sheer crisis
Reading Time: 4 minutes Gloomy clouds hover over the lives of farmers involved in potato cultivation in North Bengal as input cost is soaring amid extreme volatility
The farmers’ protest in Delhi: Why farmers of other states not equally vocal?
Reading Time: 10 minutes Why the farmers’ protest in Delhi is only becoming a protest by north Indian farmers, while the farmers of other states are relatively quiet?
Bihar Assembly Election 2020: Can the Grand Alliance repeal Modi’s farm laws?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Compelled by the Bihar Assembly election 2020, the Grand Alliance is promising repealing of central laws. But is that possible?
How the farm reforms will destroy India’s farmers and food security?
Reading Time: 9 minutes How Modi’s farm reform measures and dilution of Essential Commodities Act, 1955, will affect the farmers and food security of the poor?
Inside Modi’s two anti-farmer agriculture bills: A trap to rob farmers and people
Reading Time: 6 minutes What are the salient features of Modi’s two anti-farmer agriculture bills? We analysed the anti-poor provisions of these bills.
Will the farmers’ crusade against the two anti-farmer bills usher in a new dawn?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The two anti-farmer bills passed by Modi’s BJP in the Parliament has triggered large-scale protests. Can the farmers’ movements change India?
How long the Indian economy’s irreversible crisis can be concealed by the Modi regime?
Reading Time: 3 minutes These days the Delhi Police has literally hijacked the limelight by bringing forth a 1.1m-page-long chargesheet against former Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid. But whatever may be the discourse […]
Farmers’ suffering due to lockdown intensify in UP due to lack of wheat MSP
Reading Time: 4 minutes In Uttar Pradesh the middle, small and marginal farmers’ suffering due to lockdown intensified as they don’t get MSP for wheat from private buyers.
Nirmala Sitharaman’s rhetoric-filled budget ignores farmers’ agony and agricultural crisis
Reading Time: 6 minutes Though she spoke in length about rural development, Nirmala Sitharaman’s Union Budget 2019-20 didn’t provide roadmap for farm crisis and farmers’ welfare.
The Union Budget 2019: Less economics more propaganda
Reading Time: 10 minutes Despite promising an interim budget, Piyush Goyal presented Union Budget 2019 as a full-fledged budget with election-centric gimmicks to help the BJP win.