Want ban on GM crops to be lifted
Maharashtra farmers, underneath the banner of Shetkari Sanghatana (SS), will revive professional-GM crop movement against the Centre’s ban on GM crops.
SS President Anil Ghanwat claimed that setting up from Thursday (May well 28) farmers will create to the Condition and the Centre trying to get authorization to sow GM seeds. “ Farmers will begin a campaign to sow GM seeds underneath the banner — ‘I am a GM crop farmer – I am a criminal’ if the govt fails to react affirmatively in 8 days”, claimed Ghanwat. He claimed the farmers will crack the legislation and plant GM soya, brinjal, corn and mustard.
To intensify protest
Ghanwat claimed that entire world about, farmers are applying GM seeds and reaping rewards out of it. “After allowing to plant BG two GM cotton, the govt has not authorized any other GM crop. Having said that, the govt is importing oil produced applying GM soyabean. Farmers are fighting for their ideal and we will intensify the agitation”, claimed Ghanwat.
Final 12 months, farmers in Maharashtra launched a ‘civil disobedience’ movement by sowing GM HTBT cotton to protest against the Centre’s ban. More than one,000 farmers participated in the movement in Maharashtra’s Akoli Jahagir village on June ten, sowing genetically modified HTBT cotton. Considering that then, farmers have been brazenly defying a ban on GM crops, daring the govt to take action. The carrying, storing, providing or sowing of banned GM crops invites a ₹1-lakh good and 5 years’ imprisonment.
Farmers in Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra cultivate unapproved HTBT cotton, a Central panel had discovered earlier.
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May well 26, 2020
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