Will Take To Streets If Dairy Farmers Don’t Get Subsidy”: Sharad Pawar
NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Wednesday warned of agitation if the Maharashtra government did not provide subsidy to milk producers. He was speaking during a visit to drought-affected villages in Indapur tehsil of Pune district. “If the government failed to provide subsidy to dairy farmers, we will take to the streets,” he said. The […]
Why Farmers Are Standing Up Against Free Trade
My mom stood next to my grandfather, both crying as he emptied the bulk tank and dumped his milk in protest. It was the 1960s, and dairy farmers in Wisconsin and elsewhere who were members of the National Farmers Organization (NFO) were destroying their milk to cause shortages in supply chains and improve prices. They were desperate, […]