Farmers Movement Archive

Now, farmer in Muktsar ploughs crop on 3 acres

BATHINDA: After a couple of farmers ploughed the standing wheat crop in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, a farmer from Pakki Tibbi village in Lambi block of Muktsar district in Punjab ploughed his wheat crop on three acres to showcase anger against the central government. Farmer Rakbir Singh Sandhu had sown wheat on six acres, but ploughed half of it on Wednesday. Rakbir, whose brother Mehma Singh is the former sarpanch of the village, is an activist of farm organisation Lahoria Kisan Mazdoor Ekta. The outfit is not part of Sanyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), but supporting the morcha and some of its activists are on the Tikri border. Rakbir said his extended family owned over 50 acres, but they were faming on six as the remaining land had been leased out to farmers. “Going by the adamant attitude of the central government for not agreeing to repeal three contentious farm laws, we decided to plough the standing crop. We wanted to showcase our annoyance,” he said. He advisedother farmers not to follow suit as the main source of income of most of the farmers was crops only. He said they would continue staying at protests till the government did not listen to farm organisations. Mehma said the central government must repeal farm laws, so farmers could come back from protests and take care of their fast maturing crop. A day before, a farmer in Haryana’s Karnal district was ploughing his wheat field when activists of Bhartiya Kisan Union intervened and made him stop.

The Times of India

2021-02-25

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