{"id":56132,"date":"2018-03-12T11:37:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T06:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=56132"},"modified":"2018-03-12T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T06:37:30","slug":"thousands-of-indian-farmers-protest-lack-of-govt-support-in-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=56132","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Indian farmers protest lack of govt support in Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MUMBAI March 12 (TNS):<\/strong> Tens of thousands of farmers from India\u2019s western state of Maharashtra reached the state capital of Mumbai on Monday to protest a lack of government support despite severe distress within the sector that employs the majority of the country\u2019s workforce.<\/p>\n<p>The protesting farmers have completed a 180 kilometers (112 miles) journey from Nashik to Mumbai on foot over the course of four days and plan to stage a sit-in protest outside the state legislative assembly building.<\/p>\n<p>The farmers are demanding waivers on agricultural loans in the aftermath of unseasonal rains that destroyed crops as also more support from the government and fair prices for crops.<\/p>\n<p>The protest although peaceful so far is expected to disrupt the daily commute of thousands of city workers and cause traffic chaos in India\u2019s financial hub of Mumbai. <em>Courtesy Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI March 12 (TNS): Tens of thousands of farmers from India\u2019s western state of Maharashtra reached the state capital of Mumbai on Monday to protest a lack of government support despite severe distress within the sector that employs the majority of the country\u2019s workforce. The protesting farmers have completed a 180 kilometers (112 miles) journey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56134,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56132\/revisions\/56134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}