The “Gulabi” campaign According to KC Ravi, Chief Sustainability Officer, Syngenta India, a subsidiary of Switzerland-based agricultural science and technology company Syngenta, ‘To combat the pink bollworm pest in the crop, the Swiss firm’s Indian arm has...
According to Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) general secretary Badrinarayan Chaudhary, the current minimum support price (MSP) system is a sham that benefits farmers only in the two states of Punjab and Haryana. The RSS-affiliated (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) farmers union has announced a...
When Rajan Varghese and his wife, Shailaja, plucked the first dragon fruit from their house’s terrace garden in Kanippayyur, Thrissur, it was a watershed moment. ‘We planted the stem last November and impatiently have been waiting for this day,’ Rajan had said. Just as...
A few farmers died in Maharashtra four years ago as a result of pesticide inhalation while spraying their crops. The majority of them were from the Yavatmal district. According to police records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, 22 farmers died that year as a result of...
In the current marketing year, which ends in September, the government has purchased nearly 890 lakh tonnes of paddy at MSP, an all-time high. This comes in the midst of a farmers’ protest near Delhi’s borders. Thousands of farmers, primarily from Punjab, Haryana, and western...
