Farmers Movement Archive

Ryots in Goa extend support to nat’l farmers’ protest

Panaji: Extending solidarity towards the farmers’ protest at the Singhu border, agriculturists and farmers in Goa gathered at Azad Maidan in Panaji on Wednesday. They demanded that the three new agricultural bills be withdrawn. “It appears as though rules and regulations do not apply to this government. However, in order to maintain citizens’ rights, we had to come forward in protest,” one farmer said. Agriculturist Sandra Fernandes said that people should be grateful to farmers for the food they eat. Instead, she said, there is brutality being meted out to farmers. “It has been over 100 days that they have been ask1ing for their rights which they’re being denied. Nearly 85% of people depend on farming and it is unfair to turn a deaf ear to them. The government must solve the farmers’ problems by taking them into confidence and withdrawing the bills. Only then will we have a strong India,” she said. Secretary of Goa unit of the Communist party of India (Marxist), Victor Savio Braganca, accused the government of being deaf and blind and “in the pockets of a few capitalists who have ideas to take over the agricultural production in India.” “Though the government is trying its level best to get them to compromise with small amendments here and there, the farmers have refused to compromise and agree to any amendments. We stand with the demands of the farmers of India who are protesting,” he said.

The Times of India

2021-03-04

Goa