Agriculture
Farmers' Bharat Bandh and PM Modi's Silence | Arfa Khanum Sherwani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdWRZmLYPjI Sep 27, 2021
Farmers’ organisations are holding a nationwide Bharat Bandh today (September 27) as part of their ongoing agitation against the Union government’s contentious farm laws.
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of farmers’ organisations, said the day;s protest would last from 6 am to 4 pm.
Prime Time With Ravish Kumar: Bharat Bandh – Is The Government Ignoring Our Farmers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm7U09oZ_ak Sep 27, 2021 During the course of a year, the farmers' movement has observed Bharat Bandh several times. Every time during the Bharat Bandh, the farmers took meassures to ensure that the public should suffer the least. But even after a year of protests and negotiations, mostly failed talks, the situation remains the same. The farmers who sought to stop India for a day seem to be cordoned off in their own India.
Farmers Bharat Bandh: Movement was neither weak, nor will it be, says Rakesh Tikait https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZik2wWbjTA Sep 27, 2021
किसान और भारत बंद ||kisaan aur bharat band ||rajeev nigam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCMXqG6AwJw Sep 27, 2021
confuse godi media ||कंफ्यूज गोदी मीडिया ||rajeev nigam || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7uA5k621JA Sep 28, 2021
Jab Tak Raat Baaki Hai - A documentary series on the Farmers Movement spearheaded by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha. By Rajkumari Asthana. Several interviews and meetings with lower level participants of the Andolan.
Prime Time With Ravish Kumar: भारत का किसान महीने का इतना कम कमाता है? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t0ia2eEAXU
Sep 17, 2021 पता था कि लोगों की नजर उन बैंकों के बहिखाते पर है, जिनके यहां एनपीए (NPA) लाखों-करोड़ों रुपये का हो चुका है. इस कारण बैंकों को बुरी नजर से देखा जाने लगा था. कब डूबेंगे कब क्या होगा. इसका समाधान निकाल लिया गया है.
Stiglitz discusses benefits of globalization https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2003/10/13/stiglitz-discusses-benefits-of-globalization/
YASSMIN SADEGHI , OCT 13, 2003
It is better to be a cow in Europe than a farmer in Africa — at least comparing European farm subsidies to American economic support for African farmers — Nobel Prize-winning author Joseph Stiglitz said Friday.
Stiglitz discussed a number of problems with the United States’ governance of globaliza
SKM Uttar Pradesh Meeting Concludes with Call to make Bharat Bandh against Modi Regime's Policies a great Success 11th September 2021
The UP SKM meeting which began at Lucknow yesterday, and in which leaders of 85 Kisan organisations took part, concluded on September 10 afternoon with the following decisions:
1. All efforts would be made to make the September 27 Bharat Bandh against the disastrous policies of the Modi-led BJP-RSS regime a massive success.
2. To plan for the Bharat Bandh, meetings of all Kisan and other mass organisations will be held at each district headquarter in UP on September 17.
3. All other decisions about struggles on issues like sugarcane price and other burning local issues, dates of Mahapanchayats in each division, etc would be taken in the SKM UP meeting after September 27.
4. A three member coordination committee comprising Harnam Varma, D P Singh and Tejinder Singh Virk was formed. It will coordinate the actions for the Bandh and it will be expanded later.
All these decisions were reported in a well attended press conference at the UP Press Club in Lucknow by Dr Darshan Pal, Dr Ashok Dhawale and the three member coordination committee.
Post by Dr Dhawale: AIKS
Dr Ashok Dhawale: ‘Crisis has engulfed agrarian society’ Anupama Katakam https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/interview-dr-ashok-dhawale-on-farm-laws-neoliberal-reforms-crisis-has-engulfed-agrarian-society/article36280028.ece
Print edition : September 24, 2021
Indian agriculture was historically in a state of crisis due to the complete absence of agrarian reform outside Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura, and poor levels of public investment in rural infrastructure.
Free trade agreements have resulted in a major inflow of predatory imports, resulting in the crash of many commodity prices. Consequently, profitability rates have shrunk across crops. Agricultural credit is being diverted from small and marginal farmers towards the richer sections and corporate agribusiness houses.
These three farm laws of the BJP regime, in a nutshell, aim to dismantle the MSP regime, government procurement of foodgrains, and thus the entire public distribution system, which is availed of by over 81 crore people in India.