India has announced that it will scrap agricultural reform laws that sparked a year of huge protests by farmers.

This was announced by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a televised address in New Delhi on Friday.

He said the farm laws were meant to strengthen the small farmers, but despite several attempts to explain the benefits to the farmers, we have failed.

Thousands of farmers have been camped out on the borders of the capital New Delhi since November last year, handing Modi one of the biggest challenges since his Hindu nationalist government came to power in 2014.