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Defeat BJP: Mission Uttar Pradesh, Farmers to Campaign Against BJP Ahead of 2022 Polls

Like in West Bengal, farmers vow to build a movement against the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, where assembly polls are scheduled in 2022.

Farm laws through the digital lens - The Hindu BusinessLine

New farm laws are rosy when looked through the digital lens RELATED The Acts will enable the agri-value chains link up with global modules benefiting all stakeholders The devastating second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed lives and livelihoods to the brink. But this presents an opportune time to revisit the political economy of India’s agriculture considering three Farm Acts passed last year. Despite the numerous articles and comment in the media, we are yet to see a comprehensive yet critical assessment of these laws in the era of digitalisation. Excluding the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020, the other two laws the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020 and the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020 have implications for agricultural input and output correlations, cost distribution, information governance, and data ownership and transparency.

Wednesday News: Rampant ignorance

Wed, 05/05/2021 - 08:40 NC VACCINATIONS HAVE DROPPED BY HALF IN THE LAST MONTH: In the week of April 5, over 680,000 people in North Carolina received a dose of the vaccine, with over 336,000 of those being first doses of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, both of which require two doses to be effective against the virus. This past week, administered doses were under 337,500, with just 92,000 of those being first doses, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services. To get to two-thirds of the adult population with at least one dose, 1.3 million more adults in the state would have to get the first dose, a figure the state could reach in a month if vaccine numbers return to the early April level and stay there. “It’s really up to North Carolina about when we reach that,” Cohen said. “I’m hoping we can reach it as soon into the summer as possible, but it may take longer than that.”

Make farmers struggle into a people s movement

‘Make farmers’ struggle into a people’s movement’ Updated: Updated: Need to safeguard agriculture, food security: Sainath Share Article Need to safeguard agriculture, food security: Sainath Terming the Centre’s three farm laws as “unconstitutional”, veteran journalist and Ramon Magsaysay Award recipient Palagummi Sainath said the need of the hour is to buttress the ongoing resilient farmers’ struggle into a people’s movement to safeguard agriculture and the national food security. Local committees be formed at the district and mandal level across the country by involving all sections of society to espouse the cause of farmers under the banner ‘Kisan Bachao – Desh Bachao’ (Save Farmers – Save the Country), he said, adding that the products of the corporate companies hurting farmers’ interests should be boycotted.

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