Convenor of the steering committee, Ajit Navale said that the protest is primarily aimed at the farmers getting a fair price for their produce and loan waiver being provided to all the 89 lakh farmers in the State. Currently, a…
Farmers’ losses exceeded ₹2 lakh crore this current crop season, claimed the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) at a press conference held here on Thursday.The committee, which launched the ‘Kisan Ki Loot’ campaign, also announced a ‘first of…
KISAN KI LOOT Exceeds Rs. 2 Lakh Crores this current Crop Season Crop prices have crashed across crops and regions. All major crops selling below their price last year, much lower than the government’s own Minimum Support Price (MSP). Farmers…
Maharashtra has seen as many as 1,254 farmer suicides between June and October, five months into the farm loan waiver, official data shows. Only a small portion of the waiver has been extended to farmers so far, with the bulk…
With major crop prices plunging below minimum support prices (MSPs), farmers are likely to lose an estimated Rs35,968 crore in earnings for the kharif season, a coalition of farmers’ organizations said on Thursday.In the two weeks to 7 November, farmers…
A mass assembly of farmer associations is planned in Delhi on November 20. The charge is that market prices have gone below the government-set minimum support price (MSP) for major kharif crops. As a result, farmers estimate they would lose…
It is expected that over one lakh farmers, including women, will hold a ``Parliament” on Parliament Street on that day and pass a ``Bill’’ that will include the two demands. There will be several sessions that will raise farmers issues.…
The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), a nationwide coalition of more than 180 farmer organizations, has alleged that the farmers will lose over Rs 35,000 crore during this crop season (Kharif) as they have not been able to…
Ahead of the countrywide farmers’ rally in the Capital on November 20, the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), a nationwide coalition of over 180 farmer organisations, on Thursday announced its “#KisanKiLoot” (Looting the Farmer) campaign. Citing a study…
Never before has a Prime Minister’s address to the nation had such a catastrophic impact on the lives of the masses as Narendra Modi’s November 8, 2016 speech. At the stroke of the midnight hour, as the world slept, currency…