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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Farmer protest Day II: Agrarian crisis is policy, politics driven, says Yogendra Yadav -Pratyaksh Srivastava

Farmer protest Day II: Agrarian crisis is policy, politics driven, says Yogendra Yadav -Pratyaksh Srivastava

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published Published on Nov 24, 2017   modified Modified on Nov 24, 2017
-The Indian Express

The protesting farmers from various states across India are demanding implementation of Swaminathan Committee's recommendations, lower input costs, farm loan waiver and fair price for farm produce among other things.

New Delhi: Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav on Tuesday said that the “prevailing agrarian crisis in the country is not by accident but is policy and politics driven”. Speaking to indianexpress.com during a farmers’ protest in the national capital, Yadav said, “We are witnessing a crisis which is built into our agrarian policy because our policies have been oriented towards production and not towards producer. Every year we come and say that production has gone up but we never say what has happened to the producer.”

He underlined that the country’s agrarian policies are an attempt to replicate a model of agriculture that was formed in a different land, in a different historical and economic situation. “They are not meant or suited for our conditions. There is no doubt that the present crisis is policy driven… it is also politics driven because there is a lack of political will to do anything about the farmer. In a sense what the farmers are questioning is policy and politics underlying the systematic neglect of the farmers,” added Yadav.

The Swaraj Abhiyan leader is spearheading a protest of farmers from various states like Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana who have converged in New Delhi’s Parliament Street since Monday.

The protesting farmers are demanding implementation of Swaminathan Committee’s recommendations, lower input costs, farm loan waiver and fair price for farm produce among other things.

Besides Yadav, social activist Medha Patkar and CPI national secretary Atul Kumar Anjan are also participating in the protest.

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The Indian Express, 21 November, 2017, http://indianexpress.com/article/india/delhi-farmer-protest-swaminathan-committee-continues-agrarian-crisis-is-policy-politics-driven-says-yogendra-yadav-4947797


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