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The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella organisation of astir 500 farmers’ associations, has warned that it volition statesman protests if the Union Government fails to guarantee capable proviso of fertilizer for kharif crops. Talking to reporters aft a nationalist assembly meeting, SKM leaders said present connected Wednesday (June 17, 2026) that successful Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, farmers are already facing shortages, and fertilizer is being sold successful the achromatic market.
“In Bihar, farmers who were demanding fertilizers were assaulted by police,” they said and asked that the Government guarantee capable proviso to debar immoderate untoward situation. “The Government claims that they volition guarantee capable supply, but the crushed concern is different,” they said and added that the SKM volition start protests against rising prices and achromatic selling of urea, diesel and cooking gas.
The SKM besides warned the Narendra Modi Government against signing the escaped commercialized statement with the United States. The SKM urged farmers to cogwheel up to clasp a monolithic protestation the precise adjacent time if the Union Government signs the India-US FTA.
Law connected minimum enactment price
The gathering besides decided to intensify efforts to compel the Union Government to enact a instrumentality connected a statutory minimum enactment terms according to the MS Swaminathan Committee look that provides for guaranteed procurement. The leaders besides demanded that assorted FTAs beryllium repealed and a broad indebtedness waiver beryllium announced for farmers. The gathering reiterated the request for agrarian employment guarantees of 200 days of enactment per twelvemonth astatine a ₹600 wage and enhancing of the minimum wage of casual migrant workers to ₹26,000.
An All-India Convention of the SKM scheduled for July 28 volition marque an announcement connected the adjacent signifier of the campaign. “SKM volition coordinate with each different sections including workers, cultivation workers, students, youth, and others warring against anti-people policies to widen communal enactment and solidarity and physique wide unity among moving people,” a connection added. A National Convention of Workers and Farmers, which volition see cardinal commercialized unions, volition beryllium organised connected July 29 successful Delhi.
The gathering adopted a solution supporting demands by students’ movements for Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation pursuing the NEET (UG) insubstantial leak.
