After vidarbha five farmers now farm lady killed herself in last 72 hours

After vidarbha five farmers now farm lady killed herself in last 72 hours: despair and distress in drought hit area on alarming situation after devastation of Bt cotton crop on 3.2 million hector in Maharashtra .

Nagpur-14th September 2009

Farm lady worker sundana pandurang barallawar due to deep stress on not getting the farm work in the village mukutban in zari taluka of yavatmal district yesterday in addition to five more innocent farmers suicide in cotton belt of vidarbha taking toll to 668 in the year 2009 , informed Kishore Tiwari of Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti in press note today

The recent victims are

1.Sahebrao Deshmukh in Yawali Shahid of Amaravati

2.Devendra Kurhade in Arvi of Wardha .

3.Ramdas Choudhari in Bhedgaon of Chandrapur

4.Sharad Bhoyar in Rui-Wai of Yavatmal

5.Gajanan Dawas in Warud of Yavatmal.

“the pest epidemic is damaging the cotton crop and there is NREGA work in the vidarbha where as NRHM and PDS schemes is collapsed resulting farmers and farm workers suicides .Ministers and officers are too busy in election to look at these dying people of Maharashtra where as some of lower level officers are denying the basic relief in the name of moral code of conduct ,it’s much disturbing to see on going political drama in the mist of this gloom” tiwari said

‘On cotton crop now there is military worm attack in addition to white fly, aphids ,jessids, thriph ,mealy bug means all types of sucking pest along with deadly layla (reding of leaves) attack has come,it means all over’ Prem chavan of village Maregaon(son) in kelapur –yavatmal informed .

“In the mega advertisement of bt.cotton seed ,farmers are told that Cotton plants are having Drought tolerance and,the Genetically Engineered Bacillus Thuringenesis that cotton seed has capacity to produce antibiotic resistance to pest attack resulting in lower use of contact and non contact type pesticide and insecticide now days not only inbuilt toxin failed but there is response to all pesticide and insecticide”,informed Kishore Tiwari of Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti in press note .

It’s worst epidemic of pest attack on cash crops of rain fed Vidarbha and Marathwada,the backward portion of progressive Maharashtra which are soybean and cotton ,initially military worm damaged all standing soybean crop now this sucking pest will certainly off set rural economic balance of the region creating more despair and distress among the debt trap dying farmers ,Tiwari added..

Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti(VJAS) has urged administration to provide immediate aid to assistance to these cotton farmers who are already disturbed due huge debt and economic crisis due on going agrarian crisis in the region . “this pest epidemic on standing cotton crop will spread distress and farm suicide spiral of West Vidarbha to in near by Marathwada,Khandesh,North Mahrashtra and East Vidarbha hence urgent attention is needed to save million of dying farmers of Maharashtra” Tiwari added