Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has said India is “totally happy” with the result of the 13th World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference. This is because India continues to have complete rights to protect the interests of poor farmers and small fishermen in the country. India can continue buying food grains from farmers at assured prices ...

The protests, with the aid of farmers, towards the government’s new farm legal guidelines have been happening for over two months now. The protests first started around Delhi but have now unfolded to other parts of North India as well. These lengthy jogging protests could create political problems for the BJP inside the Hindi belt ...

Farmers in Maharashtra have protested the Indian government’s plan to levy a 40% export duty on onions, which has prompted both the ruling alliances in Delhi and Mumbai to take action to defuse the situation. In an effort to allay worries and give relief to the farmers who are protesting, the National Cooperative Agricultural Marketing ...

PM Modi Shut Opposition: Indian PM Narendra Modi addressed the striking farmers amidst protest against farms laws. Addressing them today, he has reassured a disgruntle lot that the Kisan Credit Card will now be made available to all farmers across India. He spoke to farmers across 23000 villages of India via a video-conferencing address.  This ...

The Modi government last month passed the three controversial farm reform Bills amid widespread public protests by farmers and opposition leaders against the move. While one section of society welcomed the amendments calling it a historic step for India to alter global food trading, others expressed concerns that it will create hurdles in the livelihoods ...

The prime minister spoke to farmers about the benefits of his government’s farm bills in his regular address to the nation. During this weekend’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi touched upon the three farm bills that have stoked so much controversy over the past week and led to his party’s oldest alliance partner ...

Several farmers’ unions have come together to express their displeasure at the three far bills passed by the Centre through a Bharat Bandh. Despite staunch opposition from framers in several states, the Centre passed in rapid succession three bills that will give private players more leeway in the agriculture sector. The prospect of government’s retreat ...

On Monday, the Congress party announced to organize an all-India protest from 24 September against the passing of farm bills in Parliament after the party meeting.  Congress general secretary K.C. Venugopal stated that a meeting was called on the directions of president Sonia Gandhi and party member Rahul Gandhi to discuss the matter. The Congress ...

On Thursday, farmers from Haryana held a protest and blocked the National Highway-22 highway at Pipli, Kurukshetra district against three farm ordinances brought by the Central Government in June, 2020. Amid Covid-19 cases spike in the nation, the Haryana Home and Health ministers urged the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU), to cancel the protest either face ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman laid out the third tranche of measures for the agriculture and allied sector aimed at bolstering the pandemic-hit economy. An 11-point action plan for the agriculture was announced on Friday by the Finance Minister as part of PM Narendra Modi’s 20 lakh crore COVID package. The last three of these were ...