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Posted: 18 years ago

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Originally posted by: souro

Apart from the above points there is something else I'd like to share with you. You must have heard about all the protests that are going on in WB right now over farm land aquisition by the govt.

A committee of three officers went to a village to review the process of land aquisition. Several villagers had gathered there to protest. When the officers arrived and took their seat, one young farmer went ahead and took the file lying in front of one of the officers. The officer obviously shouted 'That's mine, give it back'. The young farmer replied to him, 'See that's how we feel when the govt. grabs our land.' To me Mythili this makes a bigger impact than committing suicide.

Yeah heard and read about singur and the fasting of Mamata Banarjee😊!!!

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Posted: 18 years ago

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Forgive me if I sound harsh but I don't think the farmers are helping their cause any by committing suicide. Just two days back I read two farmers in West Bengal had committed suicide because their potato crop was destroyed by Potato Blight disease. Excuse me but I don't think this is any reason at all. Fine, so your crop has been destroyed but that doesn't mean it's the end of the world, and if you make it out to be like the end then it's your own fault. Sorry, but nobody can help you. These farmers always come up with the same old excuse,'We are farmers, we don't know anything else than farming', well duhhh..... everybody's good at one thing only. We don't expect you to know different trades but you can always learn or atleast send your child to learn something different. When someone decides to commit suicide, that means he/she has already given up, so, why should other people whine after they die?? They didn't even bother to try in the first place. You can't always hope for the govt. to provide subsidy or write off your loan.

The state on its part should try to educate these farmers to create more oppurtunity for them. Another thing that the govt. should take care of is the menace of the illegal money lenders who charge as high as 10-20% interest per month.

Whether these incidents will continue or not will depend on how much these farmers are willing to change, in the process helping themselves and how much interest the govt. shows in spreading education.

very well said and suicide is really no solution to any problem.

Edited by sandya_rao7 - 18 years ago

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souro

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Posted: 18 years ago

#13

Originally posted by: mythili_Kiran

MK=>Souro=>MK=>Souro

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IdeaQueen

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Posted: 18 years ago

#14

Time nahin hain!! I'm in office right now!!
I f I don't work I will become shaheed!!

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IdeaQueen

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Posted: 18 years ago

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Originally posted by: souro

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Souro ji!!

Nice to debate with WOW😊!!!

Cheers,

Mythili

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souro

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Posted: 18 years ago

#16

Originally posted by: mythili_Kiran

MK=>Souro=>MK=>Souro=>MK=>Souro

Souro ji!!

Nice to debate with WOW😊!!!

Cheers,

Mythili

Thanks Mythiliji. 😊

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IdeaQueen

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Posted: 18 years ago

#17

No recipe for agricultural renewal M.S. Swaminathan

We need a movement like the one that triggered the green revolution of the 1960s.

BOTH THE Economic Survey and the United Progressive Alliance Government's Mid-term Report Card have rightly highlighted the many significant achievements of the last three years including an average growth rate in GDP of 8.6 per cent. They however admit that the farm sector, which provides livelihood for 115 million families, is in distress. The Report Card correctly points out that the constraints in the supply of essential food items such as wheat, pulses, and oilseeds could upset macroeconomic stability. Having identified the problem in both human and statistical dimensions, the budget fails to provide a strategy for agricultural renewal. The budget has provided funds for bringing 2.4 million hectares more under irrigation. The expansion of farm credit to cover an additional 50 lakh farmers and total credit availability of Rs.225,000 crore are also welcome steps, although such figures alone are not going to prevent farmers affected by economic penury from committing suicides. Provision has been made both for research and extension and additional support has been indicated for strengthening the infrastructure of the agricultural universities at Pantnagar and Coimbatore. The proposal for restoring local water bodies as well as for groundwater recharge is also a welcome one. Unfortunately, there is no mention of steps to improve the efficiency of water use on the pattern of the proposal developed by the Union Ministry of Water Resources for increasing income and production per drop of water. The Economic Survey has rightly stressed that low productivity is one of the important causes of the economic distress of small farmers. It is not clear why one more demonstration model of water harvesting is needed while it is envisaged that the 'More Income per Drop of Water Movement' will cover every block of the country through agricultural universities, IITs, WALMIS, and ICAR institutions. The time for 'pilots' is gone and what we need is a movement like the one that triggered the green revolution of the 1960s. The need to revitalise the extension system has been given importance but the method proposed to be adopted is unlikely to yield the desired benefit. The Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA) is chaired by the District Collector who has many other jobs to attend to. There is no mention of why the Training and Visit system (T&V), which was based on large World Bank loans, has not been successful. The proposals to appoint a committee under Professor Abhijit Sen to review forward trading as well as another committee to review the impact of climate change are timely. It is unfortunate that a Universal PDS system, as recommended by the National Commission on Farmers, has not been introduced in the place of the targeted PDS, which is riddled with corruption. India has the largest number of malnourished children, women, and men in the world and it is high time that Mahatma Gandhi's suggestion, "To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages," is adopted. The idea of reforming the fertilizer distribution system is good and it will be better that the large subsidies given to fertilizer companies are directly provided to farmers through smart cards, so that they can buy the needed macro and micro nutrients based on soil health cards. Soil Health enhancement is the pathway to higher productivity. I am glad the Pulses Mission started during Rajiv Gandhi's period is going to be revitalised. The single important cause for stagnation in the production of pulses is not the absence of seeds but the lack of a remunerative marketing system at the field level in dry farming areas. When remunerative and assured marketing is introduced, we can see faster progress in the production of both pulses and oilseeds. The milk revolution cited in the Economic Survey has many lessons for extrapolation to pulses, oilseeds, and millets. The Finance Minister has aptly quoted Jawaharlal Nehru's famous statement made in 1947: "Everything else can wait but not agriculture." Unfortunately, it appears that agriculture not having to wait is an idea whose time is yet to come. (The writer was chairman of the National Commission on Farmers.)
https://www.hindu.com/2007/03/01/stories/2007030103581100.htm

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IdeaQueen

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Posted: 18 years ago

#18

SEZ VIOLENCE IN NANDIGRAM
Cong demands Prez rule in WB, 11die

Reuters & Press Trust of India
Posted online: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 1154 hours IST
Updated: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 1939 hours IST

Nandigram, West Bengal, March 14: The death toll from clashes in West Bengal on Wednesday between police and opponents of a planned industrial park has risen to 11, a senior police officer told Reuters.

All the dead were villagers, Raj Kanojia said, adding that several had died in hospital from injuries received when a crude bomb they had prepared exploded prematurely.

Twenty people had been arrested.

Earlier, police said farmers and political activists, many armed with sickles, attacked officers as they tried to enter a farming area earmarked for the hub, forcing police to open fire.

http://www.samachar.com/showurl.php?rurl=http://www.expressi ndia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=82944&news=Cong%20demands%20Pr ez%20rule%20in%20WB,%2011die&pubDate=Wed%2C+14+Mar+2007+02%3 A26%3A45+GMT&keyword=indexp_home

Do communists have standard principles in all the states??

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