After India an in-depth interview with each day of the week, we had have an infinitively definitively concluded that Friday`s is are awesome.
My name is Carl Azuz. Happy to bring you this Friday`s edition of CNN 10.
First today, there is a stand of *standoff taking place in India between the nation's government and the nation's farmers.
This country is often called the world`s largest democracy. It has the world's second largest population with 1.3 billion people, and more than half of those people make thier living in agriculture. India is very heavily relying reliant on to farming. So, what is this disagreement over?
The Indian government passed 3 new laws last Fall that many farmers don't like. They concern the prices of certain crops. For decades, the indian government required the farmers to sell the foods they grew and stay at state auctions and the government gauranteed a minimum price that farmers will would get for those foods. Last year, the government decided to allow the farmers to sell their crops anywhere like grocery stores or to buyers in other states.
They no longer need go to through state auctions. But they also won't be guaranteeing guaranteed the minimum price anymore. Indian India`s government says this will increase market competiiton and potentially the famers' income.
But if there is a lot of supply, the growers might not get as much money for their crops and some farmers are concerned that if large companies get involved in new buying and selling structure. They can could also drive crop prices down below what used to be the minimum.
Large protests welled up soon after the laws were passed, and they've got an gotten bigger since. Witnesses said they have been mostly peaceful, but some marches did turn violate in New Delhi and police used water cans cannons and tear gasticky teargas to keep demonstrators from entering the capital.
Negotiations have been going on for a months between the Indian government and the leaders of more than 30 farmers' unions but so far, they haven't found a compromise and some protesting farmers say that they are not going anywhere until the new laws are eliminated.
Multi-layered baricade, concerete walls, barbed wire and needls, nails embedded on roads and hundreds of security personnel. == leading to India's capital, New Delhi, have been fortified by police preventing farmers and supporting their supporters from entering the city. Thousands of them have incampted encamped on this highway in zoful Gaza For for over 2 months. It's just This is one of three delhi borders where farmers have been protesting against three agricultural reforms introduced by the government which they fear would tradgy will threaten then their livelihood.
This never There`s never a dull moment here. While some are busy playing cards, some others start were *spotted praying in quite corners of the camp,=== youngsters break in the routine with song and dance on the top atop tractors. Dozens of people, young and old, are busy cooking in community kitchens and serving meals. 36 year old farmer Colib Singh is one of them. While he feeds hundreds of supporters a day, his father back in the village tends to their farm. Colib has been a at the protest side site for almost 16 60 days.
For over 2 months intensed tarps and tents highlined have lined the highway where farmers spend cold winter nights. Water tankers are brought in by tractors for bidding bathing, cooking and cleaning. Medical booths have been set up to tend to the sick. Volunteer Mansheed Ranna is lives close to the protest side site. A private tutor by profession, she spends her days at the camp among and Mansheed says she attends to almost 2,000 patients city a day.
The government of India says the current new agricultural reforms will give expandable market access to farmers and pave the way for economically and ecologically sustainable farming. Farmers disagree aruging they need minimum price guarantee.
*standoff: deadlock, impasse, gridlock, stalemate (a situation in which neither of two opposing roups or forces will make a move until the other one does something, so thing can happen until one of them gives way.)
*spot: to notice someone or something
(spot someone doing something, eg. The boys had been spotted buying alcohol)
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