Agriculture

Prime Time With Ravish Kumar: आढ़तियों को लेकर BJP सरकार का मन अब कैसे बदल गया? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icwWhJqSdi4?start=010&end==306 Jun 29, 2021 दिसंबर , जनवरी और फरवरी के महीने में जब किसान आंदोलन (Farmers' Protest) जोर पकड़ रहा था तब एक बात सरकार ने बार-बार कही कि कृषि कानून इसलिए लाए जा रहे हैं ताकि किसानों को आड़तियों के जाल से आजाद किया जा सके. आढ़तिया और बिचौलिया शब्द का खूब इस्तेमाल हुआ. तब भी किसान कहते रहे कि इन कानूनों के जरिए नई गुलामी लाई जा रही है, वह ज्यादा खतरनाक है, इसलिए उन्हें यह कानून नहीं चाहिए. प्रधानमंत्री ने कहा था कि देश के किसानो को बिचौलियों से आजादी मिलेगी, यह बिल उनके लिए रक्षा कवच का काम करेंगे. 28 जून को बीजेपी यूपी ने अपने ट्विटर हैंडल से एक पोस्टर जारी किया है. इसमें लिखा है कि व्यापारियों और आढ़तियों की सुरक्षा के लिए प्रतिबद्ध भाजपा सरकार (BJP Government).

Nearly four years after India’s historic year-long farmers’ protests forced the repeal of three pro-corporate farm laws, it is clear that the government’s underlying agenda remains intact. The repeal was little more than a tactical retreat. 

https://countercurrents.org/2025/10/beyond-the-farm-laws-corporate-cloud-poised-to-reign-over-indias-fields/ 

The book Food Dependency and Dispossession: Resisting the New World Order offers insights into India’s agrarian crisis, with multiple chapters and substantial sections analysing the impact of neoliberal policies, the Green Revolution and the farm laws.

The book explored the true beneficiaries of the legislation, the motives of the powerful interests that demanded it and its far-reaching consequences for national sovereignty, farmers and the public. 

 

by  Colin Todhunter

19/10/2025

Only a Legally Binding MSP Can Really Help Farmers; We’ve Tried All Permutations and Combinations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIq0Ppx9MNA The Wire
Feb 21, 2024 In an interview where he argues very strongly in favour of a legally binding minimum support price for 23 crops, one of India’s most highly respected and well-regarded agriculture policy experts has said there is “no other way”. Devinder Sharma says: “We have tried all other permutations and combinations” and they have not really helped the farmer. Making the minimum support price legally binding is, he says, not just the only way but the best way of helping farmers.

 

Government Proposes New Minimum Support Price Guarantee (MSP) Plan For Key Crops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aCjG-9l1zY India Today
19 Feb 2024A panel of India's union ministers including Minister of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare, Arjun Munda; Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, and Minister of State for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai, hosted a fourth round of talks with farmer leaders discussing their demands. Among the key points negotiated include a legal guarantee of minimum support price (MSP) for farmers' produce. The proposal stipulates that the government agencies will buy pulses, maize, and cotton crops at the MSP for the next five years. This significant move is expected to influence agricultural production and the livelihood of farmers.

Farmers to get back after discussion among themselves : Sarwan Pandher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjBd5f_BUWg The Tribune
19 Feb 2024 Farmers to engage till the 21st  when the next phase of agitation to move to Delhi is planned.

Comment on YT: @SonnySundoo-ns3tt Sikh Diaspora looking after their loved ones going through destitute conditions majority of them on borrowed loans (money used for study/migration abroad) coz not much is earned in farming sectors , except for those who are well established, hence gov't is reluctant to help Punjab in anyway, in the form of foreign remittance check through RTI how much foreign remittance goes to Punjab alone. Why Vijay Malay / Choski Modi /Nirvar Modi still at large coz they took money (loan defaulters of PNB)? Coz the Money deposited in this Bank belongs to Punjab habitat so, let them suffer it's there life savings. Why no red alert was issued and asked Interplo which enables police in 196 member countries together to All sorts of crimes to extradite (to date still at large) criminals to their where there are declared absconded for crimes and is not just for gov't interest BUT Public interest. There is preconceived opinion form by false narratives by those are siding with CORPORATE & Gov't to malign the farmers... We need to go analyse and experience the situation from the ground..... It's gov't procurement (buy & store in whichever way or form) dept.(job) to analyse at local N international markets what's the demand of certain types of crops, then inform (3/6/12 months in advance) through state N local farmers unions to grow those crops to meet the demand locally 1st then sell/export the surplus. ..

@SonnySundoo-ns3tt  What right does the Corporate business have to get their borrowed loans from banks waived? Who gave waiver rights/which, tax or bank minister has such rights N why for Corporarates ONLY? How much each year since 2014 the govt has waived up to 2024 can get the info from RTI.