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Farmers arrive with blankets and mattresses for others at the site of a protest against farm laws at Ghaziabad, India on Jan. 29, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)

Indian farm protesters reinforce after standoff with police

New Delhi | Reuters — Thousands of Indian farmers marched overnight to reinforce protesting colleagues camping out on the outskirts of the capital, New Delhi, to press the government to withdraw three new farm laws that they say will hurt their livelihoods. In a standoff between riot police and the farmers, authorities tried to clear

A farmer prays to mark the 551st birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the first Sikh Guru and founder of Sikh faith, at Singhu border near Delhi on Nov. 30, 2020, at the site of a protest against newly passed farm bills. (Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)

Crops, Markets

India offers to suspend farm reforms

Farmers may call off protests

By GFM Network News, Mayank Bhardwaj January 21, 2021

New Delhi | Reuters — India’s government on Wednesday offered to suspend implementation of three new farm laws that have triggered the biggest farmers’ protests in years, which farm union leaders said they would now consider calling off. The cornerstone of the reform, introduced in September, allows private buyers to deal directly with farmers. Angry

Farmers attend a protest during a nationwide strike against newly passed farm bills at the Singhu border near Delhi on Dec. 8, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Anushree Fadnavis)

Indian opposition demands repeal of farm laws after protests

By GFM Network News, Mayank Bhardwaj December 24, 2020

New Delhi | Reuters – India’s main opposition party pressed the government on Thursday to call a special parliamentary session to withdraw new agricultural laws that farmers say will leave them at the mercy of big corporations. Rahul Gandhi, a senior leader from the opposition Congress party, handed the president a copy of a petition

Crops, Markets

India considers changing new farm laws after mass protests

By GFM Network News, Mayank Bhardwaj December 5, 2020

New Delihi | Reuters — India’s government is considering rolling back some parts of its agricultural reforms after they triggered the biggest protests by farmers in years, officials said on Friday. Tens of thousands of farmers were out on the streets around Delhi again on Friday, rallying against three laws that the government says are

File photo of rye at a grain market in India. (Deepak Sethi/E+/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

India’s controversial farm bills become law despite protests

By GFM Network News, Mayank Bhardwaj September 27, 2020

New Delhi | Reuters — India’s president on Sunday approved three controversial agricultural bills amid nationwide protests by farmers who say the new laws will stunt their bargaining power and instead allow large retailers to have control over pricing. Farmers’ organizations say one of the three laws could lead to the government stopping buying grain

Crops, Markets

Indian cabinet minister quits over farm legislation

By GFM Network News, Mayank Bhardwaj September 17, 2020

New Delhi | Reuters — India’s minister for food processing resigned on Thursday over her opposition to planned laws to allow farmers to sell produce directly to bulk buyers and make contract farming easier, saying the legislation will hurt millions of the country’s farmers. “Proud to stand with farmers as their daughter and sister,” Harsimrat

File photo of a chickpea crop in India. (Nikhil Patil/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets

India to let farmers sell produce directly to traders, retailers

Current system seen reducing farmer bargaining power

By GFM Network News, Mayank Bhardwaj June 3, 2020

New Delhi | Reuters — India is to allow farmers to sell produce directly to bulk buyers such as trading companies, food processors and large retailers, the farm minister said on Wednesday. This would obviate the need for farmers to bring their produce to India’s more than 7,000 regulated wholesale markets and let buyers buy

Crops, Weather

Unseasonal rain, hail damage winter crops in India

Crop quality issues may pressure prices

By GFM Network News, Mayank Bhardwaj March 17, 2020

New Delhi | Reuters — Unseasonal torrential rains and hailstorms have damaged the winter-planted crops of millions of Indian growers, inundating wheat, potato, chickpea and rapeseed farms in large parts of the fertile northern plains, farmers said. Most farmers were caught by surprise by the repeated rain and hail that has lashed fields full of

File photo of cattle grazing in India. (Ashwini H/iStock/Getty Images)

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Indian court acquits six in cow vigilante case

By GFM Network News, Mayank Bhardwaj August 14, 2019

New Delhi | Reuters — An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted six men of the killing of a 55-year-old Muslim dairy farmer, citing lack of evidence, raising questions over the prosecution’s failure to make its case despite videos of a crowd beating him in the street. The 2017 attack on Pehlu Khan and his two

Cattle drink from the Yamuna River near Agra in northern India. (CIA.gov)

Beef cattle, Livestock

India’s top court suspends ban on trade in cattle for slaughter

By GFM Network News, Mayank Bhardwaj July 11, 2017

New Delhi | Reuters — India’s Supreme Court suspended on Tuesday a government ban on the trade of cattle for slaughter, a boost for the multi-billion dollar beef and leather industries mostly run by members of the Muslim minority. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government in May decreed that markets could only trade cattle

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Indian farm protesters reinforce after standoff with police

India offers to suspend farm reforms

Indian opposition demands repeal of farm laws after protests

India considers changing new farm laws after mass protests

India’s controversial farm bills become law despite protests

Indian cabinet minister quits over farm legislation

India to let farmers sell produce directly to traders, retailers

Unseasonal rain, hail damage winter crops in India

Indian court acquits six in cow vigilante case

India’s top court suspends ban on trade in cattle for slaughter

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