Kolkata: Farm loan waiver scheme alone would not be sufficient to alleviate farmers’ distress across states and ensuring remunerative prices for their produce should be coupled with it so that they do not get into indebtedness further, a leader of peasants’ movement in India said here on Thursday. One of[Read More…]
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#SingurKisanMarch: 50,000 Kisan preparing for long march to Kolkata on November 28-29
Singur will be Ground Zero from where 10,000 farmers, Bargadars and agricultural workers will kickstart the ‘Singur to Raj Bhavan Abhijan’, on November 28, to highlight the series of crises engulfing the agrarian sector in West Bengal. They will be joined by 40,000 others from various parts of the state,[Read More…]
Farmers ‘crack whip’ on Maharashtra government
Mumbai: For the second time in 10 months, Maharashtra farmers cracked the whip on the government to turn spotlight on the grave agrarian crises gripping the state by completing a long march to the Legislature, here on Monday. More than an estimated 35,000 peasants — men, women, youth and even[Read More…]