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Farmers take out protest march

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Protesters demand better support price for agricultural produce

FOR A BETTER PRICE: Raitha Krishi Karmikara Sangatane members staging a protest in Bangalore on Thursday. — Photo: K. Gopinathan

BANGALORE: Several farmers and agricultural workers under the banner of Raitha Krishi Karmikara Sanghatane (RKS) organised a public meeting on Thursday demanding adequate price for farm produce and early completion of all pending irrigation projects.

The farmers took out a protest march from Chikkalalbagh and culminated at the Bannappa Park here. Several trade union leaders, including K. Radhakrishna, State Secretary of SUCI; sanghatane State Secretary H.V. Diwakar and its State unit president T.S. Suneeth Kumar addressed the public meeting. The demands included leaving the World Trade Organisation; abandoning the "anti-farmer and anti-agriculture worker" draft national agriculture policy; adequate compensation to farmers and workers affected by drought; stringent penal action against producers of substandard agricultural inputs; adequate support price for all agricultural food produce and immediate disbursement of agricultural insurance.

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