Maharashtra farmers begin pro-GM crop agitation
HTBT cotton sowed in Wardha district
The Shetkari Sanghatana (SS), the apex system of farmers in Maharashtra, launched professional-GM crop agitation by sowing HTBT cotton in Murgaon Khose village in Wardha district nowadays.
Khushal Balaji Hiwarkar, a farmer and member of SS sowed HTBT cotton seeds in his field to mark the launch of the agitation. Farmers will carry on the agitation in other pieces of the State.
SS President Anil Ghanwat mentioned, “ Farmers will defy the ban on GM crop and sow HTBT cotton, soybean, brinjal and corn in the kharif season”. The delegation of farmers satisfied State Agriculture Minister Dada Bhuse demanding that the State government persuade the Centre to elevate the ban on GM crops. The SS has began the campaign underneath the banner ‘I am a GM crop farmer – I am a criminal’. Ghanwat mentioned farmers had been struggling due to the fact of the government’s adamant stand to carry on the ban on GM crops. Last yr, farmers in Maharashtra launched a ‘civil disobedience’ motion by sowing GM HTBT cotton to protest versus the Centre’s ban.
According to farmers, the professional-GM crop motion in the State resulted in brining twenty five for each cent cotton field in the State underneath HTBT cultivation past yr.
The Centre experienced admitted past yr that it experienced obtained grievances on unlawful 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.
Published on
June 02, 2020
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