Maharashtra farmers begin pro-GM crop agitation
HTBT cotton sowed in Wardha district
The Shetkari Sanghatana (SS), the apex body of farmers in Maharashtra, introduced pro-GM crop agitation by sowing HTBT cotton in Murgaon Khose village in Wardha district now.
Khushal Balaji Hiwarkar, a farmer and member of SS sowed HTBT cotton seeds in his subject to mark the start of the agitation. Farmers will carry on the agitation in other areas of the Point out.
SS President Anil Ghanwat explained, “ Farmers will defy the ban on GM crop and sow HTBT cotton, soybean, brinjal and corn in the kharif season”. The delegation of farmers fulfilled Point out Agriculture Minister Dada Bhuse demanding that the Point out governing administration persuade the Centre to raise the ban on GM crops. The SS has begun the campaign below the banner ‘I am a GM crop farmer – I am a criminal’. Ghanwat explained farmers were suffering for the reason that of the government’s adamant stand to carry on the ban on GM crops. Past calendar year, farmers in Maharashtra introduced a ‘civil disobedience’ motion by sowing GM HTBT cotton to protest towards the Centre’s ban.
According to farmers, the pro-GM crop motion in the Point out resulted in brining twenty five for each cent cotton subject in the Point out below HTBT cultivation previous calendar year.
The Centre experienced admitted previous calendar year that it experienced been given problems on illegal cultivation of BT brinjal in Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, and Punjab. A Central panel experienced found that farmers in Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra cultivate unapproved HTBT cotton.
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June 02, 2020
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