HTBT cotton sowed in Wardha district
The Shetkari Sanghatana (SS), the apex overall body of farmers in Maharashtra, released pro-GM crop agitation by sowing HTBT cotton in Murgaon Khose village in Wardha district these days.
Khushal Balaji Hiwarkar, a farmer and member of SS sowed HTBT cotton seeds in his field to mark the start of the agitation. Farmers will continue the agitation in other parts of the Point out.
SS President Anil Ghanwat reported, “ Farmers will defy the ban on GM crop and sow HTBT cotton, soybean, brinjal and corn in the kharif season”. The delegation of farmers met Point out Agriculture Minister Dada Bhuse demanding that the Point out govt persuade the Centre to carry the ban on GM crops. The SS has commenced the campaign below the banner ‘I am a GM crop farmer – I am a criminal’. Ghanwat reported farmers have been struggling because of the government’s adamant stand to continue the ban on GM crops. Final yr, farmers in Maharashtra released a ‘civil disobedience’ motion by sowing GM HTBT cotton to protest from the Centre’s ban.
According to farmers, the pro-GM crop motion in the Point out resulted in brining twenty five for each cent cotton field in the Point out below HTBT cultivation past yr.
The Centre had admitted past yr that it had been given complaints on unlawful cultivation of BT brinjal in Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, and Punjab. A Central panel had identified that farmers in Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra cultivate unapproved HTBT cotton.
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June 02, 2020
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