mohan singh made the seven hour journey from his farm in phagwara in punjab to join the protests.'s been sleeping in the back of this truck through india's cold winter months. many people have died due to the harsh weather conditions. agriculture matters in india. not only does it feed this vast nation, it's a big source of employment. four in ten indians work as farmers and more than half of the country depends on agriculture as their main source of income. as the months have gone on, what i've found striking is how what began as a male dominated process has become more female. while women make up a large chunk of india's farm workers, only a small percentage own any land. seen, but rarely heard, they're becoming a powerful voice at these protests. its opposition to three new agricultural laws passed last year, which has fuelled this movement. the first is all about giving farmers freedom of choice by allowing them to sell anyone anywhere in india. by allowing them to sell to anyone anywhere in india. at the moment, farmers sell their produce through local government regulated ma

mostly farmers from the neighbouring states of punjab, haryana and uttar pradesh. through the bitterly cold winter, protesting three government farm laws that they believe will destroy them. now, ifirst came here at the beginning of december and this camp has grown in size since then. it is basically a mini city, a mini town, a mini community. people are living here. they are sleeping on the back of their truck, they are eating here. there are hospitals. there is even a gym here. it is a sign, clearly, that they are in this for the long run. this farmer made the seven hour journey from his farm in punjab to join the protest. he told me he has been sleeping at the back of this truck through india's cold winter months. many people have died due to the harsh weather conditions. agriculture matters in india. not only does it feed this vast nation, it is a big source of employment. four in ten indians worker as farmers with more than half of the country depending on agriculture as their main source of income. as the months have gone on, what i found striking is how what

mohan singh made the seven hour journey from his farm in phagwara in punjab to join the protests.g source of employment. four in ten indians work as farmers and more than half of the country depends on agriculture as their main source of income. as the months have gone on, what i've found striking is how what began as a male dominated process has become more female. while women make up a large chunk of india's farm workers, only a small percentage own any land. seen, but rarely heard, they're becoming a powerful voice at these protests. its opposition to three new agricultural laws passed last year, which has fuelled this movement. the first is all about giving farmers freedom of choice by allowing them to sell to anyone anywhere in india. at the moment, farmers sell their produce through local government regulated markets where they're guaranteed a minimum price. under the new law, these wholesale markets would still exist. but farmers would also be able to sell directly to big businesses. the government says farmers will be better off by having more options. but farmers fear tha

punjab karnataka and. now here in delhi cases have doubled since last week though they are still in the high hundreds around 800 today and not the 10s of thousands like in maharashtra and neighboring cases have gone up 4 times as much as they were just 3 weeks ago and to put that overall rise in context the number of infections in india had full and from the peak all nearly 100000 cases a day in september to an average of $10000.00 a day early february but this monday after about a month of cases rising steadily the highest number of cases and for months. and so with that the restrictions of returning in many parts of the country with a government with health experts saying that the rise in cases is because people aren't following that 19 protocols so the restrictions are coming back and in the same time vaccinations are continuing around 48000000 people have been vaccinated so far but the government is running behind us on sched jewel to inoculate 300000000 people in the 1st 6 months of this year. prime m

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case the since the pandemic began along with maharashtra we have just a handful of states these of punjab cannot. madhya pradesh kettler and time and not and they account for more than 80 percent of the cases in the country but what's worrying is even in places like delhi where the cases are not going up by anywhere near the kinds of numbers we're seeing in maharashtra they have more than doubled since last week in neighboring heidi on a case as are 3 times the number 4 times the number they were 3 weeks ago and so restrictions are coming back in many parts of the country districts in maharashtra have been put on the complete lockdown with health experts with the government saying that the rise in case this is the cause people have not been following the guidelines off to the cases fell dramatically earlier this year to put the current rise in context we saw a peak of around $100000.00 cases in september last year but that fell to around $10000.00 a day in february and we are back up now to recording over 60000 cases a day and so that is why restrictions are coming back and there are bans

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