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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

Harvest  2020:  Lessons farmers of India taught the world

India’s farmer protests of 2020 will go down in world history as one of the largest resistance movements of modern times

Hearts full of scepticism, farmers agree for talks with Centre on Dec 30

Wondering whether the central government will be as open-minded as they are trying to project, farmers formally accept the government's offer to talk on December 30.

Bihar govt repression continues: 10,000 farmers lathi charged in Patna.

Deprived of APMCs years ago, Bihar farmers decry the anti-farmer laws of the Centre and demand the restart of local markets only to suffer lathi-charge by state police.

Peasant supporters call for creation of Save Farmers, Save Nation committees

The Nation for Farmers organisation calls for local committees created by everyday citizens to solve India’s annadaata’s problems.

Farmers lament Centre’s vague and nonspecific letter for talks

Let down by the central government’s unimpressive letter for talks on December 30, farmer leaders assert their demands and discuss future protests

Centre agrees to meet farmers on December 30, end of stalemate?

Two days after farmer leaders sent their proposal, the central government agrees to talk to farmers on December 30 instead of December 29.

Farmers’ movement: UP Govt using police to intimidate protesters?

As farmers organisations have promised rising participation from protesting farmers from Uttar Pradesh, the Adityanath regime uses the state police to verify this participation and “address their grievances”

RSS worker confesses he spread anti-farmer-protests content at Singhu border

Caught by farmers near Delhi border, the worker confessed that he was told to discourage people from the protest by an RSS leader

Arhtiyas call I-T raids an ‘act of revenge’ by central government

Karnal commission agents continue to keep grain markets shut to condemn multiple I-T raids conducted on arhtiya leaders on December 18 and December 19.

Farmer leaders call for talks with Central Gov’t on December 29

Send proposal to Centre for discussion and criticise the Prime Minister for making false claims of help to farmers.

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