VILLUPURAM: The All India Kisan Sabha will launch nationwide agitations on December 4 and 5 urging the Centre to reverse its “anti-agriculture and anti-peasant policies.”
It will also seek the implementation of M.S. Swaminathan panel recommendations. The sabha adopted a resolution in this regard at a two-day national executive committee meeting that concluded here on Sunday, president S.Ramachandran Pillai and general secretary K.Varadharajan told a press meet here. The country was in the midst of an agrarian crisis that pushed 1.5 lakh farmers to commit suicide. A study conducted by the sabha in Uttar Pradesh and Vidharba revealed that 99.99 per cent of the farmers ended their lives as they were unable to repay loan and interest. Agriculture was increasingly becoming an unviable and loss-making proposition. Hence, as per the National Sample Survey, 40 per cent of the farmers wanted to quit the avocation.
The sabha cautioned that if multinational companies are allowed to enter the farm sector, local farmers would be at their mercy. The organisation called for a limit on the number of special economic zones to be set up as well as the extent of land to be acquired.
As regards interlinking of rivers, the sabha would support any measure suggested to improve irrigation. The sabha wanted the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme to be extended to all districts and implemented properly.
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