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Farmers in India Have Been Protesting for 6 Months, Have They Made Any Progress?
13.07.2024 - 04:11 / modernfarmer.com
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For six months now, images of Indian farmers protesting on Delhi’s roads have been beamed around the world.
Farmers have been protesting changes to India’s agricultural laws they say would undermine their autonomy as cultivators.
The new laws would create monopolies in the grain markets and trap farmers into contract farming arrangements with corporate buyers.
But after six months of protests, has anything changed?
What’s happening in Delhi?
Beginning with the north-western state of Punjab in July 2020, the protests gradually spread to other regions of the country. The most spectacular of these protests occurred when farmers arrived in large numbers at the borders of the national capital in late November, 2020.
Estimates of their numbers at this point vary, but they were certainly in excess of 50,000, and their numbers swelled to around 300,000 within a week or so. It peaked in January, when nearly a million more of them arrived from across the country and drove their tractors on the roads of the Indian capital.
They have been sitting on the roads since their arrival, surrounding Delhi from all four sides, and occupying the major highways connecting the national capital to different parts of the country. Their sit-ins covered so large an area they began to look like distinct townships, covering an area of 10-15 kilometers at each site.
They have been sleeping in the trolleys they brought along tied to their tractors and have set up huge pandals (temporary auditoriums made of canvas tents) for their protest speeches. They also play protest music, most of which is composed and sung by their own, the Punjabi
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