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Ref : VJAS/relief package-07 PRESSS-NOTE 16th October, 2007
Interest Waiver And Corporate Farming is Fraudulent Recommendation to resolve Vidarbha Agrarian Crisis :Loan Waiver and Restoration of Cotton Price is only Way out to Stop Vidarbha Farm Suicides-VJAS
Nagpur-16th ootober,2007
Presently in Mumbai mantralaya all babus are busy to give fresh recommendations to PMO ,New Delhi so that existing vidarbha relief package is modified as it has been hoax that has triggered more farm suicides rather than stopping it but as per media reports Maharashtra Govt. is once again strongly recommending same interest waiver on the overdue crop loan of cotton farmers of west vidarbha not the pending debt of 3 million distressed farmers ,kishor tiwari of vidarbha jan andolan samiti(VJAS) has termed this move as rehabilitation process dying cooperative banks controlled by politicians in power rather than saving dying west vidarbha cotton farmers ,tiwari added.
In stead of giving protection to the cotton crop as it is being given to sugarcane farmers in Maharashtra ,Maharashtra Govt. is planning to promote corporate farming is the cotton belt of west vidarbha ,this is disaster step that to introduce MNC in the agriculture in the name of relief to dying farmers, American MNC’s are mostly responsible for vidarbha agrarian crisis moreover companies like Monsanto are tha main killer of cotton farmers hence we will not allow this large scale auction of farmers land to corporate houses in the name of relief operation, kishor tiwari declared.
VJAS earlier reported-
Maharashtra Govt. even though ordered by Mumbai high court ,Nagpur bench that present relief package has failed to stop farm suicides in vidarbha and asked administration to make urgent changes in methodologies so that relief aid is directly given to the distress farmers in order to slow down farm suicides but in stead of taking high court order in positive spirit and true sense of humanity and principles of civil governance surprising in a recent officially publication of Maharashtra govt. “lokrajya” once again special issue says that relief packages are 100% successful and properly implemented but office of relief commissioner in amaravati has very gloomy picture and figure of farm suicides as total farm suicides after relief package is announced in six districts of west vidarbha as per official record is 1720 moreover in 2007 official figure of farm suicides in six district of vidarbha is reaching 1000 mark that’s 923 ,here is official vidarbha farm suicides table
| Months-2006 | Farm suicides | Months-2007 | Farm suicides |
| july | 109 | January | 99 |
| August | 120 | February | 107 |
| september | 156 | march | 113 |
| october | 160 | april | 97 |
| november | 125 | may | 102 |
| december | 127 | june | 82 |
| | | july | 75 |
| | | august | 95 |
| | | September | 106 |
| | | october | 47 |
| total | 797 | | 922 |
VJAS URGED
After receiving drum beating remark that present methodologies failed to stop on going vidarbha farmers suicides in order to stop farm suicide chief secretary of
Restoration of advance bonus that price to raw cotton @2700/- per quintal and complete loan waiver are the main issues other than providing food security ,health care, free education and rural employments needs immediate govt. attention,kishor tiwari added.
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Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
For VIDARBHA JANANDOLAN SAMITI
KISHORE TIWARI
PRESIDENT.
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