Farmers Movement Archive

Farmers protest closing of central warehouses

Trichy: Condemning the Union government for closing down central warehouses in Punjab and Haryana to stop paddy procurement, a group of farmers headed by the president of All Farmers Association’s Coordination Committee, P R Pandian, staged a protest in Mannargudi in Tiruvarur district on Monday. Police blocked the protesters including around hundred farmers from taking out a march towards a central warehouse at Pamini near Mannargudi citing the model code of conduct. Protesting the police action, the farmers blocked a road.In the name of protecting farmers, the Union government has passed three farm laws, which are in favour of corporates, and enslaved the farmers to the foreign corporates, Pandian said. When the Rabi paddy procurement was in full swing in Punjab and Haryana, the Food Corporation of India had stopped procuring paddy grains from the farmers and closed all the procurement centres in the two states, he said adding that this has exposed the betrayal by the central government.“Though the Union government has been promising that the minimum support price for grains will continue, it is distancing itself from determining the minimum support price for grains by closing down the procurement centres. The farmers are in distress and they will be enslaved by the foreign corporates. The central government is trying to divert the struggle of the ryots who are fighting for the withdrawal of the farm laws,” he said. tnn

The Times of India

2021-04-06

Trichy