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Leaders of a radical of farmers organisations said present connected Saturday that they would edifice to a blackflag protestation successful Coimbatore against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s information successful the South India Natural Farming Summit scheduled to beryllium held determination connected November 19.
The Prime Minister had nary motivation close to enactment successful the integrated farming league aft sanctioning ₹500 crore for genome editing successful cultivation crops, leaders of farmers’ associations contended astatine a associated property league here.
Addressing reporters connected behalf of assorted organisations, P. Ayyakannu, president, Desiya Thennidiya Nadigal Innaippu Sangam; S. Nallasamy, coordinator, Tamil Nadu Toddy Movement; and Cauvery Dhanapalan, president, Tamil Nadu Vivasyigal Sangankalin Kootiyakkam, said the protestation was to condemn the Prime Minister’s nonaccomplishment to support his committedness of doubling farmers income; nonaccomplishment to hole remunerative prices for workplace produce, including organically grown workplace produce; forestall Karnataka’s determination to physique a dam crossed the Cauvery astatine Mekedatu; and instrumentality the Godavari-Cauvery stream linking project.
Members of the Desiya Thennidiya Nadigal Innaippu Sangam volition separately permission for New Delhi aboriginal adjacent week to signifier an agitation successful beforehand of the Prime Minister’s residence to property their demands, Mr. Ayyakannu said.
