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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

India’s students and political parties support Bharat Bandh called by protesting farmers

Continued support from various sections of society fuels farmers’ movement with new vigour

December 8 ‘bandh’: Delhi Traffic Police announce diversions, close borders

Image Courtesy:english.jagran.comAs the massive farmers protest entered its twelfth...

Rally against state violence held outside Indian Visa and Passport office in Surrey  

The participants raised slogans against the police violence against protesting farmers, ongoing attacks on minorities and incarceration of political activists

Center-Farmer talks: Next round on Wednesday, December 9

Farmers are firm on their demands, it is the government that needs time

Support grows for Farmers’ struggle

Farmers’ movement carries on in full force gaining more and more supporters from different parts of India and abroad

Farmers Protest 2020: Reading the revolution

A selection of columns, opinions that recorded, analysed the biggest on ground protests since the anti-CAA-NRC-NPR movement

Farmers’ Protest: International pressure mounts on India

After Canadian PM, UK MPs back Indian farmers

In solidarity with his roots, Haryana youth rides tractor to wedding!

Hailing from a farmers’ family, the young businessman said he and his partner wished to express their solidarity with farmers during their ongoing movement against the central government’s black laws.

Farm laws: Delhi Bar Council speaks up against judicial power given to executive

The letter to the PM states that “this will seriously jeopardise the interest of public as getting justice at the doors of bureaucracy is far from reality”

All or nothing! Farmers assert they will not back down on demand for withdrawal of laws

Stating that repression, threats and intimidation will not deter their resolve, farmers have yet again reiterated their demand for the withdrawal of the three agriculture laws of the central government.

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