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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Rally for farmers rights on Friday by Sandeep Dua

Rally for farmers rights on Friday by Sandeep Dua

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published Published on Dec 3, 2010   modified Modified on Dec 3, 2010


Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) would reach city during its Kisan swaraj yatra on Friday to draw the attention to continuing agricultural crisis in India and call for a comprehensive new path for Indian agriculture.

Baba Balbir Singh Seenchewal and Manmohan Waris would join the rally here. A public meeting would be organized in front of PAU gate number two.

Out of 10 lakh farming families, 72,000 were forced to sell their land. Besides, more than 30,000 committed suicides in the past 10 years. Water level is depleting at an alarming speed. The residents are facing health and environmental crisis. But agriculture institutions are not ready to re-evaluate their technological approach and vision in order to correct their understanding.

ASHA is a nationwide network of civil society action groups, farmers unions, environmental groups and human right organizations. It decided to undertake a broad outreach effort reach the citizens through kissan swaraj yatra from Sabarmati on October 2 to Rajghat on December 11. The raklly would traverse through 20 states and meet farmers and consumers.

Executive director of Kheti Virasat Mission ( KVM) Umendra Dutt said, ?It is very sad that instead of looking for a sustainable solution to this severe agricultural, health and environmental crisis, our governments are acting as guardians of the MNCs.

The national food sovereignty is going to be compromised under the garb of Bt Technology. To question these anti-farmer, anti-nature, pro-corporate policy directions of the government and to also let the government and farmers and consumers know that self-reliant farming is indeed possible and is the only way forward, we are holding the rally,he added.


The Times of India, 2 December, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ludhiana/Rally-for-farmers-rights-on-Friday/articleshow/7025941.cms


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