Kozhikode: Kisan Sabha leader Ashok Dhawale honoured
Source: Kozhikode: Kisan Sabha leader Ashok Dhawale honoured
‘Buy unproductive cattle at market rates if you ban slaughter’ – The Hindu
If governments want to ban cattle slaughter or close abattoirs, they must amend cow protection laws to ensure that they purchase the resultant unproductive animals by paying market rates to owners. This is the demand of Left-backed farmers’ organisations in…
Maharashtra protest gave strength to farmers’ cause: AIKS | TwoCircles.net
The Left-affiliated All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) on Monday said it was thrilled with the successful farmers protests in Maharashtra and Rajasthan, which had given strength to the farmers’ cause and expanded agitations across the country. The support from non-farmer…
Disbursement of crop loans: Maharashtra’s worst show in 4 years
The State has recorded its worst performance in four years in disbursement of crop loans with only 41% of the target being achieved by January-end compared with the 72% at the same time last year. The low credit offtake has…
The Kisan Long March and the living hell of Indian farmers
On 6 March, some 35,000 farmers from across Maharashtra marched to Mumbai, demanding of the state government land rights, loan waivers, fair compensation for their produce, respect and dignity for farmers from indigenous tribes (adivasis) and improvements in the agriculture…
Farmers plan another protest in Rajasthan as onion prices crash | Hindustan Times
Farmers in Sikar district are again up in arms against the Rajasthan government after crash in onion prices with rising arrivals of the produce, All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) leaders said. AIKS, the CPI(M)-affiliated farmers’ organisation, plans a demonstration at…
‘Trade curbs, attacks on dairy farmers hit cattle economy’ – Business Line
Unprovoked attacks on cattle farmers by self-styled gaurakshaks have broken the back of cattle economy in the country and the worst affected were small and marginal farmers whose nearly a third of income came from animal husbandry, a national convention…
Himachal Pradesh: Farmers to Encircle State Assembly on April 3 | NewsClick
Amidst slogans of protesting farmers are echoing in different regions across the country, the Himachal Pradesh fraction of All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has given a call to encircle the state assembly in Shimla on April 3. The protest call…
Yogi Adityanath’s one year: Waiver cheque failed to check farmers’ woes
“The BJP’s loan waiver promise was a big joke to farmers,” UP Kisan Sabha leader Mukut Singh said. Arguments notwithstanding, the opposition found an opportunity to mock at the loan waiver scheme. Farm loan waiver was among the major promises…
Maharashtra protest gave strength to farmers’ cause: AIKS
The Left-affiliated All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) on Monday said it was thrilled with the successful farmers protests in Maharashtra and Rajasthan, which had given strength to the farmers' cause and expanded agitations across the country. The support from non-farmer…