Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 73,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'catslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 73,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/widows-of-farmers-protest-obama-visit-4182/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/widows-of-farmers-protest-obama-visit-4182/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'catslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 73
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 74,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 74,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/widows-of-farmers-protest-obama-visit-4182/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/widows-of-farmers-protest-obama-visit-4182/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 74
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Code Context
            if (Configure::read('debug')) {

                trigger_error($message, E_USER_WARNING);

            } else {
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 4092,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Widows of farmers protest Obama visit&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama&#039;s India visit on Friday.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &amp;mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers&#039; suicides &amp;mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region&#039;s agriculture sector caused by &#039;American policies&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; dubbed as American seed &amp;mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating &#039;Barack Obama Go Back&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&amp;quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &amp;quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &amp;mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how &#039;American&#039; Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; that promised a bumper yield &amp;mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;We&#039;ll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&amp;quot; Tiwari said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 7 November, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Widows-of-farmers-protest-Obama-visit/articleshow/6882105.cms&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;widows-of-farmers-protest-obama-visit-4182&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4182,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4092,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Widows of farmers protest Obama visit&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Agriculture&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;


The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama&#039;s India visit on Friday.

The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &amp;mdash;...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;font &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama&#039;s India visit on Friday.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &amp;mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers&#039; suicides &amp;mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region&#039;s agriculture sector caused by &#039;American policies&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; dubbed as American seed &amp;mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating &#039;Barack Obama Go Back&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&amp;quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &amp;quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &amp;mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how &#039;American&#039; Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; that promised a bumper yield &amp;mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;quot;We&#039;ll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&amp;quot; Tiwari said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 4092,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Widows of farmers protest Obama visit&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama&#039;s India visit on Friday.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &amp;mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers&#039; suicides &amp;mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region&#039;s agriculture sector caused by &#039;American policies&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; dubbed as American seed &amp;mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating &#039;Barack Obama Go Back&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&amp;quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &amp;quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &amp;mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how &#039;American&#039; Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; that promised a bumper yield &amp;mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;We&#039;ll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&amp;quot; Tiwari said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 7 November, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Widows-of-farmers-protest-Obama-visit/articleshow/6882105.cms&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;widows-of-farmers-protest-obama-visit-4182&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4182,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 4092
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Widows of farmers protest Obama visit&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Agriculture&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;


The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama&#039;s India visit on Friday.

The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &amp;mdash;...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;font &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama&#039;s India visit on Friday.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &amp;mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers&#039; suicides &amp;mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region&#039;s agriculture sector caused by &#039;American policies&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; dubbed as American seed &amp;mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating &#039;Barack Obama Go Back&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&amp;quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &amp;quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &amp;mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how &#039;American&#039; Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; that promised a bumper yield &amp;mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;quot;We&#039;ll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&amp;quot; Tiwari said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/widows-of-farmers-protest-obama-visit-4182.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Widows of farmers protest Obama visit | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="


The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama's India visit on Friday.

The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &mdash;..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Widows of farmers protest Obama visit</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <font ><br /></font><div align="justify"><font >The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama's India visit on Friday.</font><br /><br /><font >The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers' suicides &mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region's agriculture sector caused by 'American policies'.</font><br /><br /><font >The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &mdash; dubbed as American seed &mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating 'Barack Obama Go Back'.</font><br /><br /><font >&quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.</font><br /><br /><font >According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&quot;</font><br /><br /><font >The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.</font><br /><br /><font >Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how 'American' Bt Cotton &mdash; that promised a bumper yield &mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.</font><br /><br /><font >&quot;We'll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&quot; Tiwari said.</font><br /><br /><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$maxBufferLength = (int) 8192
$file = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php'
$line = (int) 853
$message = 'Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853'
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Code Context
            $response->getStatusCode(),

            ($reasonPhrase ? ' ' . $reasonPhrase : '')

        ));
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 4092,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Widows of farmers protest Obama visit&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama&#039;s India visit on Friday.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &amp;mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers&#039; suicides &amp;mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region&#039;s agriculture sector caused by &#039;American policies&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; dubbed as American seed &amp;mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating &#039;Barack Obama Go Back&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&amp;quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &amp;quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &amp;mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how &#039;American&#039; Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; that promised a bumper yield &amp;mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;We&#039;ll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&amp;quot; Tiwari said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 7 November, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Widows-of-farmers-protest-Obama-visit/articleshow/6882105.cms&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;widows-of-farmers-protest-obama-visit-4182&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4182,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4092,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Widows of farmers protest Obama visit&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Agriculture&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;


The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama&#039;s India visit on Friday.

The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &amp;mdash;...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;font &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama&#039;s India visit on Friday.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &amp;mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers&#039; suicides &amp;mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region&#039;s agriculture sector caused by &#039;American policies&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; dubbed as American seed &amp;mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating &#039;Barack Obama Go Back&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&amp;quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &amp;quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &amp;mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how &#039;American&#039; Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; that promised a bumper yield &amp;mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;quot;We&#039;ll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&amp;quot; Tiwari said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 4092,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Widows of farmers protest Obama visit&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama&#039;s India visit on Friday.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &amp;mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers&#039; suicides &amp;mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region&#039;s agriculture sector caused by &#039;American policies&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; dubbed as American seed &amp;mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating &#039;Barack Obama Go Back&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&amp;quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &amp;quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &amp;mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how &#039;American&#039; Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; that promised a bumper yield &amp;mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;We&#039;ll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&amp;quot; Tiwari said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 7 November, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Widows-of-farmers-protest-Obama-visit/articleshow/6882105.cms&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;widows-of-farmers-protest-obama-visit-4182&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4182,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 4092
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Widows of farmers protest Obama visit&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Agriculture&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;


The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama&#039;s India visit on Friday.

The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &amp;mdash;...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;font &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama&#039;s India visit on Friday.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &amp;mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers&#039; suicides &amp;mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region&#039;s agriculture sector caused by &#039;American policies&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; dubbed as American seed &amp;mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating &#039;Barack Obama Go Back&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&amp;quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &amp;quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &amp;mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how &#039;American&#039; Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; that promised a bumper yield &amp;mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;quot;We&#039;ll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&amp;quot; Tiwari said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/widows-of-farmers-protest-obama-visit-4182.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Widows of farmers protest Obama visit | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="


The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama's India visit on Friday.

The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &mdash;..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Widows of farmers protest Obama visit</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <font ><br /></font><div align="justify"><font >The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama's India visit on Friday.</font><br /><br /><font >The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers' suicides &mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region's agriculture sector caused by 'American policies'.</font><br /><br /><font >The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &mdash; dubbed as American seed &mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating 'Barack Obama Go Back'.</font><br /><br /><font >&quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.</font><br /><br /><font >According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&quot;</font><br /><br /><font >The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.</font><br /><br /><font >Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how 'American' Bt Cotton &mdash; that promised a bumper yield &mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.</font><br /><br /><font >&quot;We'll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&quot; Tiwari said.</font><br /><br /><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$reasonPhrase = 'OK'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitStatusLine() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 54
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Code Context
                    $value

                ), $first);

                $first = false;
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67fd58d32e1d2-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 4092,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Widows of farmers protest Obama visit&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama&#039;s India visit on Friday.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &amp;mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers&#039; suicides &amp;mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region&#039;s agriculture sector caused by &#039;American policies&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; dubbed as American seed &amp;mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating &#039;Barack Obama Go Back&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&amp;quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &amp;quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &amp;mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how &#039;American&#039; Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; that promised a bumper yield &amp;mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;We&#039;ll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&amp;quot; Tiwari said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 7 November, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Widows-of-farmers-protest-Obama-visit/articleshow/6882105.cms&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;widows-of-farmers-protest-obama-visit-4182&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4182,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4092,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Widows of farmers protest Obama visit&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Agriculture&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;


The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama&#039;s India visit on Friday.

The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &amp;mdash;...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;font &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama&#039;s India visit on Friday.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &amp;mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers&#039; suicides &amp;mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region&#039;s agriculture sector caused by &#039;American policies&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; dubbed as American seed &amp;mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating &#039;Barack Obama Go Back&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&amp;quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &amp;quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &amp;mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how &#039;American&#039; Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; that promised a bumper yield &amp;mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;quot;We&#039;ll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&amp;quot; Tiwari said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 4092,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Widows of farmers protest Obama visit&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama&#039;s India visit on Friday.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &amp;mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers&#039; suicides &amp;mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region&#039;s agriculture sector caused by &#039;American policies&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; dubbed as American seed &amp;mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating &#039;Barack Obama Go Back&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&amp;quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &amp;quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &amp;mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how &#039;American&#039; Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; that promised a bumper yield &amp;mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;We&#039;ll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&amp;quot; Tiwari said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 7 November, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Widows-of-farmers-protest-Obama-visit/articleshow/6882105.cms&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;widows-of-farmers-protest-obama-visit-4182&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4182,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 4092
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Widows of farmers protest Obama visit&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Agriculture&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;


The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama&#039;s India visit on Friday.

The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &amp;mdash;...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;font &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama&#039;s India visit on Friday.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &amp;mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers&#039; suicides &amp;mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region&#039;s agriculture sector caused by &#039;American policies&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; dubbed as American seed &amp;mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating &#039;Barack Obama Go Back&#039;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&amp;quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &amp;quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &amp;mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how &#039;American&#039; Bt Cotton &amp;mdash; that promised a bumper yield &amp;mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;quot;We&#039;ll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&amp;quot; Tiwari said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/widows-of-farmers-protest-obama-visit-4182.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Widows of farmers protest Obama visit | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="


The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama's India visit on Friday.

The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &mdash;..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Widows of farmers protest Obama visit</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <font ><br /></font><div align="justify"><font >The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama's India visit on Friday.</font><br /><br /><font >The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers' suicides &mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region's agriculture sector caused by 'American policies'.</font><br /><br /><font >The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &mdash; dubbed as American seed &mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating 'Barack Obama Go Back'.</font><br /><br /><font >&quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.</font><br /><br /><font >According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&quot;</font><br /><br /><font >The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.</font><br /><br /><font >Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how 'American' Bt Cotton &mdash; that promised a bumper yield &mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.</font><br /><br /><font >&quot;We'll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&quot; Tiwari said.</font><br /><br /><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$cookies = []
$values = [
	(int) 0 => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
]
$name = 'Content-Type'
$first = true
$value = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitHeaders() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 55
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

<head>

    <link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo Configure::read('SITE_URL'); ?><?php echo $urlPrefix;?><?php echo $article_current->category->slug; ?>/<?php echo $article_current->seo_url; ?>.html"/>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

$viewFile = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp'
$dataForView = [
	'article_current' => object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		'id' => (int) 4092,
		'title' => 'Widows of farmers protest Obama visit',
		'subheading' => '',
		'description' => '<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><br />
</font>
<div align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama's India visit on Friday.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers' suicides &mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region's agriculture sector caused by 'American policies'.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &mdash; dubbed as American seed &mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating 'Barack Obama Go Back'.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&quot;</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how 'American' Bt Cotton &mdash; that promised a bumper yield &mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&quot;We'll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&quot; Tiwari said.</font><br />
<br />
<br />
</div>',
		'credit_writer' => 'The Times of India, 7 November, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Widows-of-farmers-protest-Obama-visit/articleshow/6882105.cms',
		'article_img' => '',
		'article_img_thumb' => '',
		'status' => (int) 1,
		'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
		'lang' => 'EN',
		'category_id' => (int) 16,
		'tag_keyword' => '',
		'seo_url' => 'widows-of-farmers-protest-obama-visit-4182',
		'meta_title' => null,
		'meta_keywords' => null,
		'meta_description' => null,
		'noindex' => (int) 0,
		'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		'most_visit_section_id' => null,
		'article_big_img' => null,
		'liveid' => (int) 4182,
		'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'edate' => '',
		'tags' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		'[new]' => false,
		'[accessible]' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[hasErrors]' => false,
		'[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[repository]' => 'Articles'
	
	},
	'articleid' => (int) 4092,
	'metaTitle' => 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Widows of farmers protest Obama visit',
	'metaKeywords' => 'Agriculture',
	'metaDesc' => '


The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama's India visit on Friday.

The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &mdash;...',
	'disp' => '<font ><br /></font><div align="justify"><font >The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama's India visit on Friday.</font><br /><br /><font >The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers' suicides &mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region's agriculture sector caused by 'American policies'.</font><br /><br /><font >The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &mdash; dubbed as American seed &mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating 'Barack Obama Go Back'.</font><br /><br /><font >&quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.</font><br /><br /><font >According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&quot;</font><br /><br /><font >The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.</font><br /><br /><font >Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how 'American' Bt Cotton &mdash; that promised a bumper yield &mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.</font><br /><br /><font >&quot;We'll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&quot; Tiwari said.</font><br /><br /><br /></div>',
	'lang' => 'English',
	'SITE_URL' => 'https://im4change.in/',
	'site_title' => 'im4change',
	'adminprix' => 'admin'
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	'id' => (int) 4092,
	'title' => 'Widows of farmers protest Obama visit',
	'subheading' => '',
	'description' => '<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><br />
</font>
<div align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama's India visit on Friday.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers' suicides &mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region's agriculture sector caused by 'American policies'.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &mdash; dubbed as American seed &mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating 'Barack Obama Go Back'.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&quot;</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how 'American' Bt Cotton &mdash; that promised a bumper yield &mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.</font><br />
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&quot;We'll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&quot; Tiwari said.</font><br />
<br />
<br />
</div>',
	'credit_writer' => 'The Times of India, 7 November, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Widows-of-farmers-protest-Obama-visit/articleshow/6882105.cms',
	'article_img' => '',
	'article_img_thumb' => '',
	'status' => (int) 1,
	'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
	'lang' => 'EN',
	'category_id' => (int) 16,
	'tag_keyword' => '',
	'seo_url' => 'widows-of-farmers-protest-obama-visit-4182',
	'meta_title' => null,
	'meta_keywords' => null,
	'meta_description' => null,
	'noindex' => (int) 0,
	'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	'most_visit_section_id' => null,
	'article_big_img' => null,
	'liveid' => (int) 4182,
	'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'edate' => '',
	'tags' => [
		(int) 0 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	'[new]' => false,
	'[accessible]' => [
		'*' => true,
		'id' => false
	],
	'[dirty]' => [],
	'[original]' => [],
	'[virtual]' => [],
	'[hasErrors]' => false,
	'[errors]' => [],
	'[invalid]' => [],
	'[repository]' => 'Articles'

}
$articleid = (int) 4092
$metaTitle = 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Widows of farmers protest Obama visit'
$metaKeywords = 'Agriculture'
$metaDesc = '


The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama's India visit on Friday.

The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &mdash;...'
$disp = '<font ><br /></font><div align="justify"><font >The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama's India visit on Friday.</font><br /><br /><font >The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti &mdash; a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers' suicides &mdash; sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region's agriculture sector caused by 'American policies'.</font><br /><br /><font >The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton &mdash; dubbed as American seed &mdash; and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating 'Barack Obama Go Back'.</font><br /><br /><font >&quot;When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends,&quot; said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA.</font><br /><br /><font >According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, &quot;American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide.&quot;</font><br /><br /><font >The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 &mdash; after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration.</font><br /><br /><font >Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how 'American' Bt Cotton &mdash; that promised a bumper yield &mdash; turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha.</font><br /><br /><font >&quot;We'll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere,&quot; Tiwari said.</font><br /><br /><br /></div>'
$lang = 'English'
$SITE_URL = 'https://im4change.in/'
$site_title = 'im4change'
$adminprix = 'admin'

include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51

Widows of farmers protest Obama visit

The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama's India visit on Friday. The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti — a pressure group which has been documenting distressed farmers' suicides — sought to draw his attention to the plight of the region's agriculture sector caused by 'American policies'. The main event was organised at Hiwara village in Yavatmal district where a rally was taken out demanding a ban on Bt Cotton — dubbed as American seed — and withdrawal of subsidies given to US cotton growers. Vidarbha Farm Widows Association (VFWA) president Babytai Bais and a large number of farm widows and debt-ridden farmers from Vidarbha participated in the march who raised slogans holding placards stating 'Barack Obama Go Back'. "When the country is celebrating Diwali, we are sitting on hunger strike, mourning deaths of our husbands so that this mass genocide is stopped and the prevailing starvation and despair of Vidarbha agrarian community ends," said Bharati Pawar, a farm widow and secretary of VFWA. According to the VJAS president Kishore Tiwari, "American cotton and Bt Cotton have ruined rural economy of the cotton-growing Vidarbha region. A majority of over 10,000 farmers in Vidarbha, who opted for Bt Cotton seed, committed suicide." The protesters offered prayers to all 2,16,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999 — after the introduction of WTO regime in India. In a press release, Tiwari claimed that VJAS had sought a meeting with Obama to hand over to him a memorandum during his Mumbai visit but were declined permission by the administration. Tiwari said the memorandum listed out how 'American' Bt Cotton — that promised a bumper yield — turned a once lush green Vidarbha into dying fields of farmers. Over 10,000 farmers opted for this seed variety and eventually brought immense financial distress and spelt misery to over three-fourths of the farmers. Terming the tall claims of Bt Cotton being a commercially viable proposition as a hoax, Tiwari said BT seed has driven the farmers to the brink, so much so that one farmer commits suicide every eight hours on an average every day in Vidarbha. "We'll stage a protest at Delhi when Obama addresses the joint session of the Parliament on November 8. We will be joined by farmers from Punjab and elsewhere," Tiwari said.