In the early 1990s, the Bhartiya Kisan Union pressurised the government to accept which of the following demands?

Economic demands

We have noted in Chapter Three that farmers of Haryana, Punjab and western Uttar Pradesh had benefited in the late 1960s from the state policies of the ‘green revolution’. Sugar and wheat became the main cash crops in the region since then. The cash crop market faced a crisis in the mid-eighties due to the beginning of the process of liberalisation of the Indian economy. The BKU demanded higher government floor prices for sugarcane and wheat, abolition of restrictions on the inter-state movement of farm produce, guaranteed supply of electricity at reasonable rates, waiving of repayments due on loans to farmers and the provision of a government pension for farmers.