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Indian Agriculture: Between the 2026 Union budget & US-India trade deal, a huge setback for Indian farmers

While the Indian corporate media has hailed the reduction of tariffs to the US, now at 18 per cent (still up from the previous single digit figures), it is the blanket non-tariff barriers to US agriculture goods that will hit Indian farmers hard

AIKS Congratulates Kisans of Maharashtra for the Victory of the Long March

Shiv Sena-BJP Government forced by collective farmer protests to accept all demands

Farmers’ long march condemns right-wing hate ‘morchas’ in Maharashtra, calls for peace

The AIKS led farmers march issues statement against rising instances of hate speeches in Maharashtra, calls for solidarity

Maharashtra Farmers dig heels in as govt yet to table assurances in assembly

Waiting and watching to see whether the hurried assurances given to rue All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) are made good, state’s farmers not ready to give in

35 Adivasis arrested after face-off with Forest Department

Representation Image  Burhanpur, March 2023: Two Adivasi activists associated with...

Niwari’s Women Farmers Lead the Efforts for Sustainable Farming and Protection of Environment

Women farmers of Neemkhera village (Niwari district and block, Madhya Pradesh) gather near their ancient water tank built during the times of Chandel kings several centuries earlier.

Farmer suicides: From 2019 to 2021, more than 5000 farmers died by suicide each year

From the 3 controversial farms laws to decreasing allocations in every major schemes for the farmers, whose interest is the government protecting?

‘Kisan Mahapanchyat’ to be held outside Parliament on March 20: Samyukta Kisan Morcha

The farmers' platform has announced that the 'Mahapanchayat' will be held to press for a legal guarantee on minimum support price (MSP), an unkept promise of the Modi.2 regime.

Union Budget a Statement of ‘Sheer Hopelessness’, say Farmer Leaders

SKM assails budget for “concealing data” about farmers’ incomes.

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