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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
Union government announces sugarcane subsidy, farmers remain unimpressed
While some farmers responded positively to the news, farmers committed to the national struggle insist the central government is trying to distract them
Karnataka’s peasant organisations to go on strike till December 31
A joint coalition of farmers, workers, Dalits, women announce strike until authorities listen to peasants’ grievances
Gurudwara priest sacrifices life for farmers’ struggle
The aged priest visited Singhu border earlier distributing blankets to protesters and offering money for the cause
Talking down to farmers is the worst way to engage with them
First they were silent, then they said things which made the silence seem more appealing. Here are some things senior politicians should not have said to farmers at all!
Jharkhand: Unpaid for 9 months, Pakur forest labourers move HC
The PIL has been filed by a forest range officer who wrote several letters to authorities demanding the workers’ salaries
SC advice to government seen as moral victory for farmers
Farmers’ organisation takes stock of events so far and assert that the Union government’s attempts to divide farmers will not succeed.
Farmers protest intensifies: Delhi-Noida Link Road closed
Barricades set up, additional forces deployed; this a sign of more farmers from Uttar Pradesh joining those from Punjab and Haryana
Stop defaming peasant movement: Farmers reject latest gov’t proposal
Farmers’ leaders write a letter to stop further misinformation and call on citizens to observe Homage day for farmers who died during the movement
The only party who has blocked the road is you: SC to Solicitor General
Supreme Court tells Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, that a farmer who is willing to negotiate must be present in court
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