Rural surge of pandemic affects agriculture
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Farmers reluctant to hire workers from outside due to the widespread prevalence of COVID-19
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Farmers reluctant to hire workers from outside due to the widespread prevalence of COVID-19
The rural surge of the pandemic unfolding in south Karnataka region, as anywhere else in the State, is beginning to impact agricultural activities.
Though officials in the Agricultural Department attribute the decrease in activity to inadequate pre-monsoon showers, farmers aver that the situation in rural areas was such that labour was difficult to come by to kickstart land preparation for sowing or even take up harvesting of summer crops.
Farmers’ union demands higher FAR for sugarcane
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Submitting a wish list ahead of the State budget, the farmers from Mysuru region want the government to declare the input cost of cultivation as fair and remunerative price in case of sugarcane.
Kurubur Shanthakumar, president, Karnataka Sugarcane Cultivators Association, said here on Friday that the cost of cultivation had escalated but the FAR fixed by the government did not match the actual cost incurred by the farmers. Hence the government should announce measures to benefit the farmers.
He said it was a failure of Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa in not holding a pre-budget meeting with the farmers to discuss issues related to agriculture. The farmers are in dire straits and the feedback from the community would have helped the government conceive policies to bail them out of the crisis.
Mysore/Mysuru: The indefinite day and night stir launched by duped
Green Buds Agro Company depositors seeking return of their deposits, in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office here, entered the third day today.
The Green Buds investors are on stir since Monday (Feb.8) urging the Government to take immediate measures for auctioning the properties of the company and return their deposits with the revenue thus generated, as directed by the Government.
Former KR MLA M.K. Somashekar visited the protest site in support of the depositors.
Addressing the protestors, Somashekar said that Agro Buds firm had duped over two lakh gullible investors, most of whom are women, to the tune of hundreds of crores of rupees.
Farmers march to Bengaluru on Republic Day
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Utkarsh 05 February 2021
A protester from the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, a farmers’ organisation, raises slogans during a march at the NICE junction in Bengaluru.
A protester from the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, a farmers’ organisation, raises slogans during a march at the NICE junction in Bengaluru.
On 26 January, as farmers protesting at Delhi’s borders drove into the national capital in large numbers on a fleet of tractors, farmers in Karnataka also held rallies and demonstrations in their support. Thousands from across Karnataka congregated at the NICE junction at Bengaluru’s Tumkur road, as part of the “Jana Ganarajyotsava Parade” The People’s Republic Day Parade. They later converged with other farmer rallies at the Freedom Park in central Bengaluru. The parade, which was held in solidarity with the protesting farmers, echoed their demand for repealing the three controversial
Thousands of farmers descended on the tech city of Bangalore with their tractors and lorries on Republic Day to express solidarity with their brethren protesting in Delhi against the three new farm laws.
Although Bangalore police restricted the number of tractors entering the city, farmers marched in large numbers from the railway station to Freedom Park, a distance of about 3km, for their “Jana Ganarajyotsava Parade” in solidarity with the farmers protesting in Delhi for over two months. Similar protests were held in many districts of Karnataka.
The farmers started arriving from distant parts of Karnataka to Bangalore on Monday evening itself. The flow intensified on Tuesday morning as they rode on hundreds of tractors and lorries from across the state to converge in the Karnataka capital.