Farmers Movement Archive

Despite appeals, farmers in Haryana keep turning on own wheat crop

JIND: Despite appeals by farm leaders, farmers in Haryana continue to destroy their wheat crop. Suresh Singh, a farmer, crushed his wheat crop grown over one acre of land in Kandela village of Jind district. The crop was destroyed for the first time in Haryana at Gulakni village of Jind district. This was followed by farmers destroying the crop at Dharoli, Meharda and Nidani villages. Farmers said they would keep only as much wheat as required by their families in the days to come if their demands were not met. If farmers stop growing their crops, there will be distress and the government would not find it easy to manage the situation, farmers claimed. Suresh Singh from Kandela village, who crushed his standing crop, alleged, “It was the outcome of the adamant attitude of PM Modi, who is not listening to our demands. The farming community is very peaceful and destroying their own crops will be a huge loss. We feel pain while cutting the standing crop but it is less than the pain we felt for farmers who lost their lives at Delhi borders. It would be a loss for us but we have reached such a level that we are ready to sacrifice anything to save our land.” Sudesh Devi, a woman protester from Kandela village, who drove a tractor to crush the crop claimed, “Modi doesn’t care for anyone in the nation and is behaving like a dictator. But we have also planned to protest against the three farm laws till 2024 and will not step down till the laws are repealed.”

The Times of India

2021-02-28

Gurgaon