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Farmers join wrestlers protest at Jantar Mantar
Farmers join wrestlers protest at Jantar Mantar New Delhi: Wrestlers Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Phogat, Sangeeta Phogat and Bajrang Punia light candles during their protest at Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi, Sunday, May 7, 2023. (PTI Photo/Atul Yadav) New Delhi: Farmer leaders Rakesh Tikait and Mehar Singh along with wrestlers Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat speak with the media during wrestlers’ protest at Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi, Sunday, May 7, 2023. (PTI Photo/Atul Yadav) New Delhi: Farmer leaders Rakesh Tikait and Mehar Singh along with wrestlers Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat speak with the media during wrestlers’ protest at Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi, Sunday, May 7, 2023. (PTI Photo/Atul Yadav) New Delhi: Farmer leaders Rakesh Tikait, Mehar Singh and Baldev Singh Sirsa along with wrestlers Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat speak with the media during wrestlers’ protest at Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi, Sunday, May 7, 2023. (PTI Photo/Atul Yadav) New Delhi: Wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik with supporters during their protest against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, Sunday, May 7, 2023. (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary) New Delhi: Wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik with supporters during their protest against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, Sunday, May 7, 2023. (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary) Farmers lend their support to protesting wrestlers at Jantar Mantar
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Women wrestlers thank members of the farmer community for supporting their protest against WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, at Jantar Mantar on Sunday (PTI) New Delhi: In a powerful show of solidarity, representatives from various ‘khaps’ in Haryana gathered at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Sunday to extend their support to women wrestlers protesting against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over allegations of sexual harassment.
Balwant Phogat, President of Phogat Khap, while speaking to IANS, said that leaders from various khaps have gathered at the protest site to unequivocally support the wrestlers in their fight for justice.
Security personnel and farmers during the latter’s demonstration in support of the wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Sunday (PTI) “We are currently conducting a meeting to discuss and determine our next steps in this crucial matter,” he said.
Earlier on Sunday, the Delhi Police granted permission to certain Khap leaders to travel from the Delhi borders to Jantar Mantar using their private vehicles. However, it did not allow khap leaders on tractors to enter the national capital.
Bharatiya Kisan Union leaders, including Rakesh Tikait, Arab Singh Ahlawat, Joginder Singh, and others, also joined the gathering at Jantar Mantar to show their support for the ongoing protest by wrestlers.
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Will procure every grain of damaged paddy: KCR to Telangana farmers
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Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao assured the peasant families that the state government will procure every grain of the damaged paddy due to untimely rains.
KCR appealed to the farmers not to worry about the Paddy which got wet due to rains. He made it clear that the state government will pay an equal price to the damaged paddy as paid for normal paddy during the procurement.
The Chief Minister reiterated that the Telangana government’s aim is to protect agriculture and ‘rescue the farmers’ from their hardships’.
In the wake of incessant untimely rains in recent times, he directed the agriculture department to study what policies should be adopted so that Yasangi paddy harvesting can be completed before March and take appropriate measures to sensitize the farmers in this direction. KCR also suggested the farmers postpone the harvesting for another three to four days.
The Chief Minister held a high-level review meeting on the procurement of Yasangi paddy and wet paddy, measures to ensure early harvesting of Yasangi paddy in future, activities of the agriculture department etc at DR BR Ambedkar Telangana Secretariat on Tuesday.
Ministers T Harish Rao, V Srinivas Goud, G Jagadishwar Reddy, MLC and state president of Rythubandhu Samiti Palla Rajeshwar Reddy, MLAs -Balka Suman, Bajireddy Govardhan, principal advisor to Government Rajeev Sharma, chief secretary Santhi Kumari, principal secretary to the chief minister Narsing Rao, finance special chief Secretary Ramakrishna Rao, Secretaries to chief minister -Smita Sabharwal, Rajasekhar Reddy, Bhupal Reddy, Agriculture Secretary Raghunandan Rao, Civil Supplies Commissioner V. Anil Kumar and others participated.
KCR said that “the Telangana government’s activities for the development of agriculture and the welfare of farmers’ families are providing unprecedented benefits and the state stood as a role model for the country. Telangana surpassed many states in Paddy production. The government is producing every grain of Paddy from the farmers in their fields. Telangana government is the only one in the country which is implementing an action plan for the welfare of farmers with sincerity and determination.”
He called the untimely hailstorms and rains that the state received as ‘unfortunate’.
“There is no control over natural calamities. However, the state government did not keep silent. It is already supporting the farmers who have lost crops due to hail storms by providing Rs 10,000 per acre despite the heavy burden on the state exchequer. The state government considered the farmers’ plights in the wake of damage to Yasangi paddy due to rains. The state government is once again ready to come to the rescue of the affected farmers in the crisis time. It is decided to procure wet paddy. We will complete the paddy procurement as soon as possible and make it clear that the farmers need not worry.”
The officials explained to the chief minister about the details of the procurement of Yasangi paddy which is already going on across the state. Officials told KCR that some difficulties were faced in the procurement due to untimely rains. The commissioner of the civil supplies department Anil Kumar explained to the chief minister that procurement will be completed soon with all the arrangements.
As the state is likely to witness rains for another three to four days, KCR advised the farmers to stop harvesting the paddy so that the grain does not get wet.
KCR advised both the agriculture department and farmers to take this untimely rain as a lesson and create awareness in advance to avoid future losses. He requested the farmers to take up the paddy plantation in advance and ensure the Yasangi paddy harvesting is completed by March end of every year. The Chief Minister said that it is good to complete the harvesting before March as there are chances of untimely rains.
He further directed the agriculture department to conduct more scientific studies in this direction and sensitize the farmers. “Farmers should also be made aware of the use of fertilizers,” he said.
The Chief minister directed the officials to create awareness among the farmers on the changes that occur in agricultural practices through leaflets, posters, advertisements etc.
KCR directed the secretary of the agriculture department Raghunandan Rao, to alert the officials in this direction from time to time to the lower level AEOs. “They should always be available to the farmers and give suitable instructions to monitor in this direction,” he added.
KCR made it clear that the officials should work at the field level by using Rythu Vedikas (Farmers’ platforms ). “Strict action will be taken if the officials failed to discharge their duties sincerely,” he warned. The Chief Secretary Santhi Kumari has been asked to carry out surprise inspections.
“Telangana agriculture is witnessing fast growth. The Department of agriculture should be constantly alert and carelessness will not be tolerated,” he said.
The Chief minister made it clear that the officials and staff from the lower to the higher levels should be updated from time to time and thoroughly understand the objectives of the state government’s agricultural policies and work more dynamically.
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Maha: 6L hectare land affected by unseasonal rains; farmers to get compensation
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(Representative image) Nagpur: Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Abdul Sattar on Thursday said farmers will not face shortage of seeds or fertilisers and will get adequate compensation for crop loss due to unseasonal rains after ‘panchnamas’ (assessment) were completed.
He was addressing a press conference after chairing a review meeting of Kharif season preparation in Nagpur division.
“Farmers in the state will not face any shortage of seeds and fertilizers as these have been allocated as per district-wise demand. Compensation to the farmers affected by the recent rains will be given as soon as loss assessment surveys are completed,” a District Information Office release quoted him as saying.
“A total of 46 lakh hectares of land was affected by excessive and unseasonal rainfall between June last year and now. A total of 57 lakh farmers were affected. The state government will provide double the relief set as per National Disaster Relief Fund criteria,” he said.
Farmers in the state will get Rs 12,000 annually since the state government will pay Rs 6,000 over and above the Rs 6,000 paid by the Union government under the PM Kissan Samman Nidhi Yojana, Sattar said.
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More untimely rain adds to Telangana farmers’ woes
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Hyderabad: While a fresh spell of untimely rain across Telangana is causing more damage to agricultural crops, the state government has assured farmers that it will stand by them.
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president and state minister K.T. Rama Rao on Wednesday told farmers not to panic over the losses and assured them that the government will render all possible assistance.
KTR, as the Minister is popularly known, voiced concern over the losses incurred by farmers due to untimely rains and hailstorms in various districts.
He asked party MLAs and other public representatives to undertake field visits in their respective constituencies and review the situation in coordination with local officials.
Advising farmers not to worry, he told them that the state government will come to their rescue.
He recalled that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao himself personally visited the affected areas, reviewed the situation and gave assurance to farmers.
With more rain expected in the next couple of days, KTR requested the officials to be available at the field level.
Agricultural crops in some districts were damaged due to unseasonal rains and hailstorms during the last 3-4 days.
KCR, as the Chief Minister is popularly known, on Sunday directed Chief Secretary Santhi Kumari to take up the assessment of crop damages.
He asked the Chief Secretary to speak to District Collectors and get detailed reports on crop damages.
Minister for Civil Supplies Gangula Kamalar has assured farmers that the KCR government will provide 100 per cent compensation.
Unseasonal rains and hailstorms had damaged crops over 2.28 lakh acres in various parts of the state last month as well.
KCR had then visited a few affected areas and announced a compensation of Rs 10,000 per acre.
However, after a survey the agriculture department decided to pay compensation only in respect of 1.51 lakh acres.
Officials said the money will be deposited in the bank accounts of 1,30,988 farmers.
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#untimely #rain #adds #Telangana #farmers #woes( With inputs from www.siasat.com )
KCR’s call to Maharashtra farmers: Abki baar kisan sarkar
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Aurangabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday asked farmers to ensure a farmers government in their state, and called for emulating the ‘Telangana model’ of governance.
“Abki baar kisan sarkar,” said Rao, addressing his BRS party’s third public rally in Maharashtra.
He asked farmers to elect BRS in zilla parishad elections. “We want to have the Telangana model of administration in Maharashtra,” he added.
Farmers are ending their lives, he said. It is unfortunate that farmers had to agitate in the national capital for 13 months, after which PM Modi apologized to them and gave an assurance, but nothing has happened, Rao said.
“We need out of box thinking to change India. BRS is not for any class or religion but for all people,” he said.
“We don’t have to be afraid of anything. If there is sincerity we will win. That is why BRS is here,” he said, adding the party is building a permanent office in Maharashtra.
Rao said political will was needed to resolve water and electricity supply woes facing the country.
More than double the amount of water needed is available, yet there is water scarcity, he said. “Rulers, PM, CMs lack the will,” he added.
India’s water supply planning should emulate Zimbabwe which has huge water reservoirs to cater to that country’s needs, Rao said.
This scarcity will continue till there is new structure and a new Act on water distribution, he said.
“The water the rich drink in posh Jubilee Hills and Banjara Hills in Hyderabad is the same water the poor in Adilabad drink,” Rao said.
He asked why can’t Maharashtra have an insurance scheme for farmers on the lines of Telangana. “If a farmer dies in Telangana, the nominee gets Rs five lakh in 8 days,” he said.
Rao asked farmers to become MLAs and MPs, instead of just being used by leaders.
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Catalonia’s farmers face threat of drought … and a plague of hungry rabbits
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With much of Spain facing severe drought after an exceptionally dry winter that followed the hottest summer on record, Alex Foix is planting vines in dusty ground near the village of Verdú in the province of Lleida. He hopes to have enough water for the vines to survive their first year, but that is not his only worry: it is the rabbits he fears most.
Unusually, the area worst affected by drought isn’t in the south of the country but in the north-east region of Catalonia, where – in addition to a severe water shortage – farmers are facing a plague of rabbits. With a lack of grass and water, the animals are destroying crops, especially young wheat and barley, and eating the bark on vines and fruit trees.
“A lot of factors have contributed to the rabbit population explosion: there was the pandemic, when no one could hunt for two years; they’ve become immune to myxomatosis; and the female can produce seven or eight offspring every two months,” Foix says.
Samboda checks his crops for damage caused by rabbits. Photograph: Paola de Grenet/The Guardian The Catalan government has said that more than 250,000 rabbits need to be killed by September to contain the population, according to reports, but it is a task beyond the means of the region’s disappearing breed of aged hunters.
In an effort to reduce the numbers, the government has permitted the use of aluminium phosphate, which releases toxic phosphine gas when introduced into burrows.
“If it doesn’t rain in April and we have another year like last year, the vines won’t survive,” says Juan Samboda, a member of Pagesos o conills (Farmers or rabbits), who grows cereals, vines, olives and chickpeas near Verdú.
Drought is endemic in Lleida, says Samboda, but he points with pride to the area’s modern irrigation system, which is driven almost entirely by gravity. A series of small reservoirs are supplied with water from the Segarra-Garrigues canal. The problem is the water for the canal comes from the Rialb reservoir, 75km away. Standing on the bridge over the reservoir there is no sign of water but rather an improvised race track for trail bikes.
In Catalonia as a whole, water reserves are down to about 26% and Samboda and his neighbours are running out.
The depleted Rialb reservoir. In Catalonia as a whole, water reserves are down to about 26%. Photograph: Paola de Grenet/The Guardian “The question is how to manage the resources we have,” says Josep Carles Vicente, an olive farmer in Priorat, 60km south-west of Verdú. “If we decide that this year we can only cultivate a quarter of the available land then we have to decide what crops to prioritise. It’s vital that we don’t just improvise from day to day.
“If the drought continues, in the case of fruit trees we can irrigate enough to save the trees but not enough for them to bear fruit.”
At the end of February, a number of measures were agreed by the Catalan government, including a 40% reduction in water used for agriculture, a 15% reduction for industrial use, and a cut in the average daily supply for each resident from 250 litres to 230 litres.
There is a ban on using drinking water to irrigate parks and gardens or for street cleaning, and plans to increase the amount of recycled water that can be introduced into rivers. An emergency plan allows local authorities to contract water tankers.
The empty Segarra-Garrigues canal, which supplies a series of reservoirs in the area. Photograph: Paola de Grenet/The Guardian However, a cross-party emergency water summit held late last month failed to reach agreement on further restrictions. Municipal elections are due in May and – anxious to please voters – local mayors argued that municipal swimming pools be kept open on health grounds. They also blocked a proposal to fine local councils that exceed their water quota.
Some farmers have been learning to adapt to the changing conditions. Marta Casas, oenologist at Parés Baltà winery in Penedès, near Barcelona, says global heating over the past 20 years has brought the grape harvest forward from late August to late July.
“We’ve noticed that if we leave ground cover around the vines they are better equipped to survive drought because the morning dew doesn’t just settle on the leaves but on the grass, too,” she says.
Farmers are turning to grape varieties more resilient to drought but the damage caused by rabbits remains a problem. Photograph: Paola de Grenet/The Guardian Casas adds that the winery is opting for grape varieties with a longer growing cycle, as the increasingly harsh climate affects the taste, aroma and sugar content of the grapes. This has led them to replace French varieties such as merlot and chardonnay with native vines such as sumoll, moneu and malvasia sitges.
But the plague of rabbits may not be so easy to combat. “One study found areas where there were 100 times what is considered the stable population of rabbit an acre,” says Foix, pointing to the protective plastic sleeves he’s fitted to each young vine in the hope of keeping them at bay.
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