KOLHAPUR
: A congregation of
farmers
producing sugarcane, onion and milk is organised at
Otur
village in
Junnar
taluka of Pune district on Saturday. The event, organised to pay tribute to farmer leader
Sharad Joshi, will be preparing the ground for farmers' agitation for better price for their produce.
Farmer leader
Raghunath Patil
said that the farmers should get Rs 5,000 per tonne for sugarcane this season and the first instalment should be Rs 3,500. In the present situation this rate is affordable for the government and the sugar factories.
Patil said that the government is using the ‘divide and rule' policy. "The ruling parties are trying to break the farmers' movement by wooing their leaders and making them part of the government. Leaders such as Pasha Patel, Raju Shetty and
Sadabahu Khot
are falling to the government's plans. But these measures will not be able to break the movement and new leaders will emerge to fight for farmers," he said.
"Farmers who grow sugarcane, onion and rear cattle for milk production are at the receiving end of the wrong policies of the state government. Prices of all these products have increased in the market but farmers have not got proportional benefits. Tired of the policies of the
Congress and
NCP, farmers voted for the current government but this has also disappointed us," he said.
"Now it is the time to choose a leader to address the farmers' problems. For this purpose and to address other issues of farmers we have organised the congregation on the birth anniversary of Sharad Joshi,"
Patil
said.
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