‘I Don’t Know How Much I Owe’
It has been 13 years since farmer Kamal Chandra’s suicide in Chiltampalle village. His wife Parameshwari is still struggling to repay his loans from private moneylenders for which she has no written records.
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At Mahapanchayat in Delhi, Farmers Vow to Build Bigger ‘Andolan’ for Democracy
With the general elections a year away, farmers’ unions say they will build more pressure on the government to resolve their issues and ‘will take their movement to its logical end’.
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Food Giants Paid $53.5 bn to Shareholders, 345 mn Went Hungry in 2 Years
The world’s biggest food corporations in grain, fertiliser, meat and dairy sectors paid $53.5 billion to shareholders in 2020-22, while the number of people facing food insecurity increased from 135 million in 53 countries to 345 million in 82 countries over the same period.
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Displacement in Delhi: In the Capital, This Is How Farmers are Treated
The vegetable fields of farmers living next to the Yamuna river, who ploughed the floodplains adjoining the Yamuna in Delhi for generations, are only the latest casualties in the effort to make Delhi a ‘world class’ city where the riverfront is real estate up for grabs.
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Monsanto and the Merchants of Poison
A recently published report ‘Merchants of Poison: How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide’ tells a story going back to 2012 about how pesticide and processed food companies spent $45 million to defeat a ballot initiative to label GMOs (genetically modified foods) in California.
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PMFBY Allows Big Businesses to Profiteer at the Cost of the Farmers
The total premium paid under PMFBY by the Centre, the States and the farmers to insurance companies during the last 5 years was Rs 1,26,521 crore, whereas the insurance companies paid only Rs 87,320 crore to the farmers towards settlement of claims.
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The Devastating Impact of Bt Cotton on Farmers
Genetically engineered Bt cotton varieties were widely promoted by powerful private companies as being less susceptible to pests, hence reduce pesticide use and increase yields. However the actual experience of farmers in India has been very different from this.
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Why Say No to Indian Govt Approval to GM Mustard
On October 18, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee, GOI permitted the environmental release of genetically-modified mustard. Being the first food crop, expert studies question the environmental, biosafety and human health risks associated with hasty government approval.
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Increase in Price of MSP by Modi Government: A Critical Review
The comparative study of increase in the MSP during the one decade of the Modi govt. and one decade of the Manmohan govt. reveals that the proportional increase in MSP during the Manmohan govt. was almost 2 to 3 times higher than increase in MSP during the Modi govt.
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Global Agrifood Sectors Turning Into Oligopolies: Report
Syngenta Group, Bayer, BASF and Corteva control half of the world’s commercial seeds and 62% of the world’s pesticide market. Similarly, four companies control 44% of the global market in farm machinery.
