Sugarcane Farmers Protest In Maharashtra

Over 20,000 farmers have started a two-day march from Thane to Mumbai's iconic Azad Maidan, eight months after a similar protest saw a sea of red - formed by farmers in red caps - on a long march through Maharashtra. The farmers are demanding compensation for drought, an unconditional farm loan waiver and the transfer of forest rights to tribals. I...

Nearly 500 sugarcane farmers, demanding that they be paid for their produce according to the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) set by the Centre, were lathi-charged by police in Solapur today as they tried to present a memorandum to Maharashtra minister Chandrakant Patil.

Angry protests by farmers have spread in Maharashtra as their demand for better prices for sugarcane became louder. Farmers and police battled each other in Kolhapur, Satara and Sangli districts today, after a Diwali respite on Tuesday. A police jeep was set on fire, several state-run buses were damaged and policemen were stoned after they lathicha...

Extending his support to the "justful" cause of sugarcane growers in Maharashtra, social activist Anna Hazare on Wednesday condemned the firing incident in Sangli district and accused the state government of turning this year's Diwali "black" for protesting farmers.

There has been more violence in western Maharashtra, where sugarcane farmers are on protest demanding better prices for their produce. Farmers clashed with the police in Kolhapur and Sangli districts today, pelting stones at cops and even setting a police jeep afire and damaging several state-run buses, after the police attempted to break up their...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today appealed to the state's sugarcane farmers to call off their protests. The sugarcane farmers, who have been protesting since last week in demand of better prices for their produce, met Mr Chavan at his hometown in the Karad district of Maharashtra.

Over 20,000 farmers have started a two-day march from Thane to Mumbai's iconic Azad Maidan, eight months after a similar protest saw a sea of red - formed by farmers in red caps - on a long march through Maharashtra. The farmers are demanding compensation for drought, an unconditional farm loan waiver and the transfer of forest rights to tribals. I...

Nearly 500 sugarcane farmers, demanding that they be paid for their produce according to the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) set by the Centre, were lathi-charged by police in Solapur today as they tried to present a memorandum to Maharashtra minister Chandrakant Patil.

Angry protests by farmers have spread in Maharashtra as their demand for better prices for sugarcane became louder. Farmers and police battled each other in Kolhapur, Satara and Sangli districts today, after a Diwali respite on Tuesday. A police jeep was set on fire, several state-run buses were damaged and policemen were stoned after they lathicha...

Extending his support to the "justful" cause of sugarcane growers in Maharashtra, social activist Anna Hazare on Wednesday condemned the firing incident in Sangli district and accused the state government of turning this year's Diwali "black" for protesting farmers.

There has been more violence in western Maharashtra, where sugarcane farmers are on protest demanding better prices for their produce. Farmers clashed with the police in Kolhapur and Sangli districts today, pelting stones at cops and even setting a police jeep afire and damaging several state-run buses, after the police attempted to break up their...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today appealed to the state's sugarcane farmers to call off their protests. The sugarcane farmers, who have been protesting since last week in demand of better prices for their produce, met Mr Chavan at his hometown in the Karad district of Maharashtra.