To: Mr Ashok Kumar Mishra, Assistant Director, FFRC (Food Fortification Resource Centre)  Sub: Response to FFRC letter dated 19th November 2020, in response to our letter dated5th November 2020 on Planned Mandatory Fortification in India of Edible Oils and Rice Dear Shri Ashok Kumar Mishra, This is a long overdue response from our side to [...]

The Response sent to the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare is downloadable here ———- Forwarded message ——— From: ASHA Kisan Swaraj <asha.kisanswaraj@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 at 12:10 Subject: Response to Consultation Paper on IDEA-India Digital Ecosystem of Agriculture To: <idea.consult-agri@gov.in> Cc: <secretary@meity.gov.in>, <secy-agri@gov.in> Date: 30th June, 2021 To, The Chairperson, Task Force [...]

WHY THE FARMERS ARE ASKING FOR A REPEAL OF THE 3 FARM ACTS (Note: This is a note that collects the various key issues being raised by farmer organizations about the Farm Acts, and attempts to put them together cogently and comprehensively) 1. INTRODUCTION Farmers’ organisations of the country have been demanding a full repeal [...]

सभी किसानों के लिए एमएसपी[1] का क़ानूनी हक़ सभी किसानों के लिए एमएसपी  का क़ानूनी हक़ – किसान स्वराज का नोट – pdf   वर्तमान में भारत में जारी किसान आंदोलन की एक अहम माँग क़ानूनी गारंटी वाली लाभकारी क़ीमत मिलने से जुड़ी है। आंदोलनरत किसानों की मांग है कि एमएसपी उन्हें क़ानूनी गारंटी के [...]

———- Forwarded message ——— From: ASHA Kisan Swaraj <asha.kisanswaraj@gmail.com> Date: Wed, May 5, 2021 at 11:04 AM Subject: Direction and Partnerships of the digital push by the Ministry of Agriculture To: <ns.tomar@sansad.nic.in> Cc: <ravis@sansad.nic.in>, <vch-niti@gov.in>, <secy-agri@gov.in>, <secretary@meity.gov.in>, <anantm@microsoft.com>, <sachin@cropdata.in> 5th May 2021 To, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, Hon’ble Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India. [...]

MSP AS A LEGAL ENTITLEMENT FOR ALL FARMERS (You can download this document in its pdf version here) One of the key demands of the ongoing farmers’ agitation in India is related to statutorily guaranteed remunerative prices. Protesting farmers are demanding that the Minimum Support Prices actually accrue to them in a legally binding manner, [...]

ASHA Position Paper on Mandatory Fortification of Foods in India This position paper has been written by the Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) in the context of mandatory fortification of foods like edible oil, milk and proposal for the same for rice in India. Whilst we agree with Food Safety and Standards Authority [...]

FPOs – Should they be Aggregating Agents of Agri corporations or Harbingers of Atma Nirbhar farming communities? “Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs)” is a term applied to different kinds of collectivisation of farmers, which can take different legal forms or even remain as informal. Such collectives are meant to empower the member farmers, especially in terms [...]

Webinar on “Sustainable Solutions to Straw Burning Problem” on 7th Nov (Saturday) at 3.30 pm The issue of straw/stubble burning and its impact on loss of soil fertility and adding to air pollution is a well-known issue and figures prominently in public debates at this time of the year annually. Many solutions are also being [...]

From: ASHA Kisan Swaraj <asha.kisanswaraj@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 10:43 AM Subject: ASHA’s Response on FSSAI’s planned mandatory fortification of Edible Oil with Vitamin Aand Vitamin D and Rice with Vitamin B12, Iron and Folic Acid To: <ceo@fssai.gov.in> Cc: <Alokkumar.up@nic.in>, <min-wcd@gov.in>, <secy.wcd@gov.in>, <vch-niti@gov.in>, <hfm@gov.in>, <ns.tomar@sansad.nic.in>, <secy-agri@gov.in>, <min-food@nic.in>, <secy-food@nic.in>, <secyhfw@nic.in> To, Shri Arun Singhal, FSSAI CEO [...]