Farming Crisis
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Protesting farmers hold rail rokos at 62 locations across Punjab
Several demonstrators were allegedly detained in Haryana and Rajasthan as they made their way to protest sites.
Scroll Staff
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Farmers’ protest: Centre extends internet ban in parts of Punjab till February 24
In neighbouring Haryana, the state government has imposed similar restrictions till Monday.
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Farmers to stage sit-in protests in four states on February 21, says Rakesh Tikait
A fourth round of negotiations between leaders of the farmers’ groups and Union ministers will be held on Sunday.
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Top updates: No breakthrough in farmers’ talks with the Centre, nationwide rural strike begins
Thousands of farmers are protesting at the Punjab-Haryana border to press the Centre to accept their demands.
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Top updates: Third round of talks between farmers’ groups and Centre today
The protestors have called for trains across Punjab to be blocked on Thursday.
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Farmers’ groups to march to Delhi as talks with Centre collapse
Authorities have blocked Delhi’s borders to prevent the protestors from entering the national capital.
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Punjab’s farmers are struggling as groundwater levels plummet, with few solutions in sight
Farmers want canal water for irrigation, while the government backs crop diversification. Both initiatives have seen limited success.
Sanskriti Talwar, IndiaSpend.com
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Punjab: One farmer dead as clashes erupt between protestors and police in Sangrur
At least five police personnel were also injured in the protest, during which farmers sought compensation for damaged crops.
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Why cotton farmers in Gujarat have accused the state authorities of protecting a pesticide company
Farmers in Bharuch district have accused Meghmani Organics of causing deformities in their crops.
Supriya Vohra
The Reel
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The story of India’s unique ‘Milk Revolution’ is going to the Cannes Film Festival
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The story behind the ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ title track: ‘Just write very simple poetry’
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In Maharashtra, sugarcane workers suffer debt bondage as climate change ruins crops
Rights activists have raised the alarm about a cycle of debt that results in long days, illness and injury as workers struggle to work off what they owe.
Sanket Jain, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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In Bangladesh, tubewell owners are extorting desperate drought-stricken farmers
Millions of farmers are facing an irrigation crisis in Bangladesh’s 16 drought-prone but fertile northwestern districts.
Kamran Reza Chowdhury
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In North India, unforgiving heatwaves have reduced the yield and quality of wheat this year
The early onset of high temperatures in March resulted in an estimated 10%-35% reduction in crop yields in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
Kapil Kajal
The Field
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