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Ref-Vidarbha Farm Crisis-2008 URGENT- PRESS-NOTE Dated-13TH APRIL,08
7 Farm Suicides in a Day taking Tally to 116 on the Eve of Sharad Pawar First Visit to Vidarbha after Rs.60,000 Crore Farm Loan Waiver
Nagpur-13th april 2008
Today 7 farm suicides reported in the vidarbha as Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar is visiting first time vidarbha after Indian govt. announced Rs.60,000/- crore farm loan waiver to stop on going suicides of distressed farmers of west vidarbha ,he is coming to vidarbhafor opening new airport terminal in Nagpur
Those who have committed suicides in last 24 hours are
1.NARESH KHANDARE IN YAVATMAL
2.ISHAWAR RATHODE IN YAVATMAL
3.SACHIN TIMANE IN YAVATMAL
4.RAMBHAU KALE IN CHANDRAPUR
5. VINOD SADASHIV IN WASHIM
6.RAMESH BHONDE IN AMARAVATI
7. PRAKASH KIRNAPURE IN BHANDARA
Taking toll to 116 After Indian govt. announced Rs.60,000/- crore farm loan waiver, kishor tiwari president of vidarbha jan andolan samiti informed in a press release.
Earlier in a shocking incidence yesterday one debt-ridden farmer in the Vidarbha region of
One Baban Jeughale had taken a loan of Rs 1.75 lakh rupees to cultivate his 10 hectares of land. When he couldn't repay the debt, he committed suicide.
Vidarbha is witnessing continuing farmer suicides despite the Prime Minister's 3,750 crore-rupee relief package as well as the 60,000 crore-rupee farm-loan waiver announced in the Budget and in last four days 15 more farm suicides identified as ,other than seven listed above
8.BABAN JUGGALE IN BULDHANA
9.HARISH GAUTAM IN AMARAVATI
10. SHYAMRAO WAGHATRE IN
11 SADASHIV WAT IN AMARAVATI
12.LILADHAR GAIKWAD YAVATMAL
13.WAMAN RAJURKAR IN YAVATMAL
14.MURLIDHAR KAKADE IN YAVATMAL
15.HARIDAR BALKI IN CHANDRAPUR.
Over 282 farmers have been reported to commit suicide there since January as month jan -80.feb.- 86 ,march- 80 and till date april 27 farm suicides have reported, kishor tiwari president of vidarbha jan andolan samiti informed in a press release.
VJAS has requested union minister for agriculture sharad pawar to visit farm families instead of attending fanfare function in Nagpur , informed kishor tiwari of Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti(VJAS).
Once again Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti(VJAS) has urged Indian govt. to provide minimum food security and health care and rural employment or direct subsidy to dying farmers in order to stop these on going farm suicides but nobody is ready even look at our demands, tiwari added.
VJAS has asked Indian Prime Minister Dr.Mammohan Singhji to have integrated formula to tackle vidarbha agrarian distress which is like wise
DEMANDS OF VIDARBHA DYING FARMERS
1-Resotretion of cotton advance bonus that price of Rs.2700/- per quintal as promised by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi at the time of Maharashtra assembly election 2004 as congress-Ncp govt. stopped advance bonus and brought down cotton price from rs.2500/- per quintal to rs.18oo per quintal in year 05-06 and 06-07.
2-Providing fresh credit from institutional bank to all debt trapped farmers mostly from private money lenders and to provide 5 year credit cycle as asked by NCF.
3-Provide food crop promotion INCENTIVE to vidarbha cotton farmers.
4-Complete ban on chemical advance genetic farming methods as it’s failed to give feasible and profitable cash crop pattern moreover it’s high cost high risk has increased distress in vidarbha farmers resulting much more farm suicide prior to GM cotton seed commercial trials permission that before year 2005 in vidarbha.
5-There is no concrete investment plan both from Indian and
6-There is no paln to have direct protection from market forces to the cash crop cultivating farmers on cost stabilization front.
7-No plan to set up the regulator to control cost and quality of input and exploitation from forward trading in commodity market .
8-There is no relief is given as per food security and health care and educational fees help to ward of distressed farmers, direct govt.employment to one person from distressed farming family .
"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.
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Yours faithfully,
For VIDARBHA JAN ANDOLAN SAMITI
KISHORE TIWARI
PRESIDENT
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