Farmers have been protesting for nearly a month over the reforms, enacted in September, to deregulate the agriculture sector, allowing farmers to sell to buyers beyond government-regulated wholesale markets. “More mothers and sisters will become widows like me.”Suicide by struggling farmers has been a problem in India for years. The reforms, contained in three laws, loosen rules around the sale, pricing and storage of farm produce. “We’ll keep protesting,” said Gurbax Singh, a farmer union leader at a north Delhi protest site. At a nearby protest site, old farmers lounged in ramshackle shelters beside medical stalls and makeshift kitchens.

Source: bd News24 December 16, 2020 10:52 UTC