Feeling neglected by politicians, widows of Punjab farmers put up their own candidate in Bathinda

Veerpal Kaur of the Kisaan Mazdoor Khudkhushi Peedit Parivar Committee is contesting against Harsimrat Kaur Badal.

Mayank Aggarwal

· May 19, 2019 · 07:30 pm

‘All parties treat farmers like beggars’: Punjab’s agriculture workers have no hope from elections

Recent farm loan waivers and income support schemes have had little impact amid growing agrarian distress.

Manu Moudgil

· Apr 02, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Loan waiver is not a solution to farm distress, helps only a fraction of farmers, says NITI Aayog

Vice Chairperson Rajiv Kumar said that no government had worked for farmers as much as the current one led by Narendra Modi.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 19, 2018 · 06:59 pm

Pink bollworm pests reach Maharashtra’s Yavatmal early this year, adding to farmers’ distress

Multiple measures like pheromone and light traps, multi-cropping and changing cropping seasons have been initiated.

Meena Menon

· Aug 31, 2018 · 09:30 pm

Farmers from Nashik reach Mumbai, to protest outside Maharashtra Assembly from Monday

Their demands include better safeguards, and a complete waiver of loans and electricity bills.

Scroll Staff

· Mar 11, 2018 · 11:34 am

Maharashtra: Nearly 25,000 farmers march from Nashik to Mumbai to demand loan waiver

Led by the All India Kisan Sabha, the protestors are planning to protest at the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha on Monday.

Scroll Staff

· Mar 09, 2018 · 10:55 am

The tobacco industry is wooing farmers in Africa with false promises of prosperity

How true is Big Tobacco’s claim that tobacco growing is essential to the livelihoods of millions of small-scale rural farmers?

Raphael Lencucha, The Conversation

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Ronald Labonte, The Conversation

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Donald Makoka, The Conversation

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Jeffrey Drope, The Conversation

· Jan 03, 2018 · 08:30 pm

Drought and now pest attacks: Double danger stalks Odisha’s rice fields, its farming mainstay

A severe shortage of government-distributed pesticides aggravated the crop loss from attacks by brown planthoppers.

Priya Ranjan Sahu

· Nov 13, 2017 · 09:00 am

A litany of miseries: After crop failure and debt, pesticides are killing farmers in Vidarbha

At least 40 people have died from pesticide poisoning since August and hundreds have taken ill.

Meena Menon

· Nov 12, 2017 · 06:30 am

In Kashmir, saffron farmers brace for heavy losses because of a dry spell and lack of irrigation

The National Saffron Mission, launched in 2010, promised sprinklers. Farmers say they remain a distant dream.

Rayan Naqash

· Nov 05, 2017 · 09:00 am

In Peru, growers of ‘world’s best’ coffee are losing ground to the popularity of coca farming

Coca leaf, which is also used to make cocaine, is more profitable and farmers say they can no longer sustain with coffee alone.

Jack Lo Lau

· Jun 10, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Falling prices, cash crunch, poor irrigation: What’s driving India’s farmers to despair and anger

Farmer protests have swept Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra while frustration and desperation simmer across the country.

Prachi Salve, IndiaSpend.com

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Alison Saldanha, IndiaSpend.com

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Vipul Vivek, Indiaspend.com

· Jun 09, 2017 · 07:30 pm