VIDARBHA FARMERS TO START NATIONAL HIGHWAY BLOCKADE AGTATION FROM 11TH OCTOBER TO DEMAND HIGHER PROCUREMENT PRICE TO COTTON

VIDARBHA JAN ANDOLAN SAMITI

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Ref-Vidarbha Farm Crisis-2007 PRESS-NOTE Dated-3^rd octo.2007

THOUSAND OF VIDARBHA FARMERS TO START NATIONAL HIGHWAY BLOCKADE AGTATION FROM 11^TH OCTOBER TO DEMAND HIGHER PROCUREMENT PRICE TO COTTON. (pl see photo attached)

Nagpur-3^rd october 2007

In order to put the demands of thousand of dying vidarbha cotton farmers it is resolved in a unique protest rally on 2^nd October,2007 to mark the father of Nation Gadhiji birth anniversary day' to start indefinite national highway blockade in order to press the main demand of cotton growers to have higher procurement price to cotton ,more tha 10000 cotton farmers of vidarbha region participated in rally ornised at pandharkawada in yavatmal district which is epocentre of farm suicides in vidarbha ,kishor tiwari of vidarbha jan andolan samit informed today.

The protest rally presided by senior most farm activist vijay jawandhia joined by activist and political workers of all parties which was orgnised for preying the Indian government to "BRING BACK MAHATMA GANDHIJI" that's Gandhian policies to save vidarbha farmers to announce future plan agitation. hundreds of farm widows alsol joined candle vigil function on the same day to join AID's worldwide programme, tiwari added.

Viajy janwandhia urged UPA convener smt.sonia Gandhiji to restore advance bonus and give rs.2700/- per quintal price as promised in the UPA manifesto.”we are forced to come on the street as govt. is not attending the main demand of cotton growers in order to stop on going farm suicide spiral in vidarbha time has for the central Govt. intervention to stop these on mass genocide as million farmers of vidarbha who are in deep distress, kishor tiwari of VJAS informed the farmers in rally .

Tiwari said most of the political parties are shedding crocodiles tears over the insult of cotton farmer but they are not talking about finding solution to redress the hardships of the Vidarbha farmers. Presently most of the farmers who are committing suicides are victims of poverty and hunger that has resulted after the economic collapse in the Vidarbha region due ongoing agrarian crisis.

"We demand urgent step to provide food security and health care facilities to these dying farmers before making arguments over farm suicides being agrarian or non-agrarian. Now the time has come to give complete loan waiver and price protection on all agriculture produce from free trade in WTO era to Vidarbha dying farmers", Tiwari added.

On 2^nd October cotton farmers protest rally has decided future course of action of agitation in order to get the main demands of farmers of higher procurement price to cotton and complete loan waiver and all farm activist in the region joined tha rally and work together with the action plan in order to slow down the farm suicide and to tackle vidarbha agrarian crisis ,kishor tiwari convener of this agitation informed in a press release.

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For VIDARBHA JAN ANDOLAN SAMITI

KISHORE TIWARI

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