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Responding to a telephone by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non Political), farmers gathered astatine Kuvempu Park adjacent Gun House Circle successful Mysuru connected Sunday and burnt draught copies of the Indo-US commercialized woody to explicit their choler against the agreement.
Led by President of State Sugarcane Growers’ Association and Federation of State Farmers’ Organisations Kurubur Shanthakumar, the farmers sported achromatic bands connected their arms portion raising slogans condemning the Centre’s determination to participate into an statement they described arsenic “death warrant” for the farmers of the country.
Speaking connected the occasion, Mr Shanthakumar said that the Union Government, by signing the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, has efficaciously signed the “death warrant” of Indian farmers.
He said granting duty-free concessions for cultivation and dairy products imported from the United States would trim request for home cultivation produce, starring to falling prices, pushing farmers into debt, and expanding husbandman suicides.
He further said that farmers successful the United States person subsidies of up to 200 per cent, whereas Indian farmers person lone astir 3 per cent subsidy. In specified circumstances, Indian farmers would find it hard to vie and whitethorn adjacent beryllium forced to dump their nutrient connected the streets owed to deficiency of buyers. He added that the statement would negatively interaction traders and each sections of nine arsenic well.
He remarked that portion the British erstwhile came to India for commercialized and aboriginal ruled the country, it is unfortunate that present-day people’s representatives are present acting successful a mode that compromises the interests of Indian farmers.
He threatened that the farmers’ protests against the commercialized statement volition intensify successful the state if the Centre does not retreat the woody immediately. He warned that the farmers volition gherao Union Ministers and MPs if the Centre fails to retreat the statement with the U.S.
The farmers besides raised slogans demanding withdrawal of work concessions extended to import of cultivation products from the U.S. to support Indian farmers.
