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India’s Invisible Women Farmers
The farmers’ protests outside New Delhi have cast a spotlight on a traditionally overlooked group: the women who keep India’s farms running.
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January 14, 2021
Woman farmer Sohajdeep Kaur, 40, center, with others shout slogans as they block a highway in protest against new farm laws at the Delhi-Haryana state border, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020.
Credit: AP Photo/Manish Swarup
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At Tikri village, bordering the western fringes of India’s national capital New Delhi, thousands of farmers from across the country have been agitating since November 26. Their target: the government’s new farm laws, which they view as “pro-corporate” and “exploitative” toward Indian farmers. ....

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