19/05/2007

Western Vidarbha :

1. Ravindra Gawande, Dhadi village in Wardha,
2. Dulichand Turkar, Sihora in Bhandara and
3. Kisan Attarkar, Patur village in Akola district

Attarkar and Ravindra ended their lives by hanging themselves while Dulichand committed suicide by swallowing pesticide, reports said.

BT Cotton - 2007 Mass Sowing Again in India

Indian Agriculture Ministry Bystander in BT Cotton Sowing Plans of 2007 -
THE RECORD 350 COTTON FARMERS SUICIDES IN VIDARBHA : IT'S ONCE AGAIN BT COTTON MASS SOWING IN VIDARBHA

Nagpur, 01 MAY 2007 :

The cotton growing area of western Vidarbha under severe agrarian crisis, has recorded 350 farm suicides, in first four months of 2007.
However, there is no drop in sowing of high failure bt. Cotton in this region as it is reported locally that this year area covered under bt. Cotton sowing is likely to be doubled from 8 lacs hectares to 16 lac hectares.
Why ?
All seed traders, cum money lenders, are giving BT Cotton seeds on credit to these debt trapped farmers, after more than 95% cotton farmers failed to repay crop loan this year, due poor cotton crop, and drop in market rate of sold cotton.
Government machinery and Indian bankers, are not giving fresh loans to defaulter cotton farmers where as Monsanto is giving huge credit and lucrative schemes to seed traders and they, in turn, are forcing innocent cotton farmers to purchase these failure prone BT Cotton seed.
Local government administration has reported this fact to Indian Govt. but everybody is turning blind eye as American genetically modified seed giant Monsanto has protection from US Agriculture Department, where as in India, Agriculture Minister and Cricket Minister of India Bhau Sharad Pawar is patron of this company in India, as infomed by Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti in press note released today.

VJAS has been demanding complete ban on bt. Cotton in west vidarbha as now it's official that bt. Cotton has been failed in rainfed area and in all most all 95% area is rain fed and farmers has to depend upon monsoon which is not regular and small and marginal farmers are suffering from massive economic losses due to frequent failure of bt. cotton and majority of 2500 cotton farmers suicides reported since June 2005 are small and marginal farmers who opted bt. Cotton seed in rain fed area, Kishor Tiwari of vjas added.

THE MISLEADING TABLE OF SHOWN IN ADVT. OF BOLLGARDII IS LIKE THIS :

BOLLGARDII
BOLLGARD
BOGUS BT.
HYBRID COTTON

COST OF SEED PER BAG :

(450GMS)
RS.1350
RS.750
RS.500
RS.400

COST OF FERTILIZER :
RS.1150
RS.1150
RS.1150
RS.1150

COST OF PESTICIDE :
RS.450
RS.450
RS.900
RS.1200

OTHER COSTS :
RS.1500
RS.1500
RS.1000
RS.1200

TOTAL INPUT COST :
RS.4500
RS.3850
RS.3550
RS.3950

PRODUCTION COST :
RS.1100
RS.900
RS.500
RS.500

PRODUCTION EXPECTED :
1100 KG.
900 KG.
500KG.
500KG.

OUTPUT COST :
RS.2000
RS.2000
RS.2000
RS.2000

TOTAL INCOME PER ACRE :
RS.22000
RS.18000
RS.10000
RS.10000

PROFIT PER ACRE :
RS.17550
RS.14150
RS.6450
RS.6050

HERE IS OFFICIAL DATA OF BT. COTTON FAILURE IN LAST THREE YEARS :
KHARIFF-YEAR
COTTON PRODUCTION IN QUINTALS
COTTON RATE
COTTON PRODUCTION PER HECTOR
SEED COST PER HECTOR
PESTICIDE COST PER HECTOR

2002-03
310 LACS
RS.2700
380KG
RS.1100
RS.1200

2003-04
260 LACS
RS.2500
340KG
RS.1200
RS.1400

2004-05
210 LACS
RS.2500
390KG
RS.1350
RS.1300

2005-06
180 LACS
RS.1780
190KG
RS.9600
RS.1650

2006-07
134 LACS
RS.1890
160KG
RS.5600
RS.1350

VJAS has demanded that Government of India should ban bollgardII Bt cotton in Vidarbha to stop on going farm suicides, agrarian distress and farm debts.

In year 2007, record 350 vidarbha farmers suicides reported (JAN-70, FEB-88, MARCH -97 APRIL 95) that has exposed local administration that package implementation has dropped down the farm suicides in vidarbha by 50% as farm suicide figure of this year since Jan to April is all most double and farm suicides in vidarbha are daily increasing but administration is using official media to mislead the world that vidarbha farm suicides are on decline as maharashtra govt. on it's own website ;

http://www.vnss-mission.gov.in/docs/suicide.pdf

has put the information that exposes this claims as wrong one as vidarbha farm suicides in last three year are on record high and vidarbha Jan andolan samiti has given the reference of their own web site official data, which is like this
OFFICIAL FIGURE OF FARM SUICIDES IN SIX DISTRICT OF WEST VIDARBHA :

http://www.vnss-mission.gov.in/docs/suicide.pdf
FARM SUICIDE AND YEAR
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007 TILL APRIL

SUICIDE IN YEAR
49
105
143
441
560
1427
350

THIS FIGURE OF SUICIDE ARE FROM SIX DISTRICTS i.e. YAVATMAL,AMARAVATI,AKOLA,WARDHA,WASHIM,BULDHANA OF VIDARBHA AND ARE FROM GOVT. WEBSITE :
http://www.vnss-mission.gov.in/docs/suicide.pdf

RECORD SUICIDE AFTER PRIME MINISTER RELIEF PACKAGE ANNOUNCEMENT :

Dr. Man Mohan Singh, reputed Oxbridge economist, and Indian Prime minister, visited Vidarbha on 1 st July 2006 and announced Rs.3750 crore package to the cotton farmers of six districts, but official record says that there record increase in cotton farmers suicides after this package announcement as govt. of maharashtra has officially admitted 1534 farmers suicides after 1 st July 2007 as this suicide figure is all most equal to suicide figure of last decade and this fact is known to govt. officials very well.
Bureaucratic officials in charge of agriculture and relief in Maharashtraa, are saying that suicide are declining and after the trumpeted relief package, suicide rate has come down to 50%, this is matter of shame Kishor tiwari added.

Govt. of Maharashtra has selected Dr. Sudhir Goyal, Relief Commissioner to clarify this misleading suicide data as same relief commissioner has put govt. official survey which shows that 75% of 1.7 million farmers are in distress, and more that 4 lacs 34 thousands cotton farmers, are in deep distress and their hardship are needed to be addressed has not been taken care of in these so called relief packages.

Link to survey : http://www.vnss-mission.gov.in/docs/servey.pdf

26/04/2007

Western Vidarbha :

1. NARAYAN CHAMPATRAO JUNJUNKAR OF RALEGOAN IN YAVATMAL
2. MAHADEV RAMCHANDRA POPHALE OF DHOTERDI IN AKOLA
3. PANDURANG BHIKAJI DEVKAR OF MAZALGOAN IN BULDHANA
4. SATISH GOVIND RAGHUWANSHI OF HIRULPURNA IN AMARAVATI
5. RAJESH BHAGWAN WANKHEDE IN KALARA IN AKOLA
6. LAXMAN RAMAJI SAHARE IN CHANDOLA IN AMARAVATI

06/04/2007

Western Vidarbha :

1. SHARAVAN RATHODE, ASOLA, YAVATMAL
2. BHAURAO MESHRAM, LOHARA, YAVATMAL
3. RAISINGH CHAVAN, BHULAI, YAVATMAL
4. RAMRAO UIKE, PITHORI, NAGPUR

24/03/2007

Western Vidarbha : Home state of political heavy weight, tough talking, ALL ROUNDER, Indian Cricket Minister, also working part time, as Indian Agriculture Minister, and at the same time also as Indian Food Minister, and also as Indian Food Imports Minister.

1. NAMDEO TAG, MURTIJAPUR, AKOLA
2. ANKUSH LATHAL, CHATKHED, AKOLA
3. BABAN BHIMATE KRISHNNA, WASHIM
4. RAMESH NEMANE, PASARNI, WARDHA
5. SURESH KADAM, SALPHAD, WARDHA
6. KISHATTANNA DESHATTIWAR, CHANAKH, YAVATMAL
7. DIKARAM DHOTTARKAR, TADULWANI, NAGPUR
8. PRABHAKAR KALE, ALIPUR, WARDHA
9. BHAGWANTRAO PHUNDKAR, KHUBHARGOAN, AMARAVATI

21/03/2007

Western Vidarbha :
1. DEVIDAS RATHODE, PIMPARI(PANDHURNA), YAVATMAL
2. SADASHIV SHRIRAME, KAMATHWADA, YAVATMAL
3. ASHOK ONKAR, KURAHAD, YAVATMAL
4. JANRAO WANKHEDE, RAMTEK, WASHIM
5. SAWARAM RATHODE, SHIGANAPUR, WASHIM

09/03/2007

Western Vidarbha :

1. MODHUKAR GANJU RATHODE, GAWADGOAN, VILLAGE, AKOLA
2. OMKAR CHANDU RAHAGANDALE, ASADI TANDA, GONDIA
3. KISHORE RAMRAO GAWANDE, VILLAGE CHONDI, PUSAD
4. ASHOK MAHADEV TIDAKE, VILLAGE JAMATHI, AKOLA

The Guardian Minister of Yavatmal district, and nephew of ex-chief minister, late Vasantrao Naik, Shri Manohar Naik has been celebrating his 60th birth day with opulent fanfare in Pusad.
Manohar Naik is from Banjara community of Maharashtra, from which many of the suicides in Vidarbha have been coming.

For its part, the PMO, in its response to Maharashtra government affidavit, on delay in release of Vidarbha Relief Package funds, announced by Shri Man Mohan Singh with much fanfare, has sent a team of officers of IB, to investigate what actual funds have reached the indebted farmers of Vidarbha and the survivors of agrarian suicides in the cotton belt.
Bureaucratic name calling, will be seen in the coming days without any attempts to change Congress farm exit policy.

05/03/2007

Western Vidarbha :
1. Devidas Rathode, village Bhuli, Washim distt
2. Janrao Pachare, Dongargoan, Akola distt
3. Savitri Dhavane, village Khatkheda, Wardha
4. Damkrishanna Turankar, Naigaon(khz), Yavatmal
5. Dadarao Rathode, vilage Chirodi, Amaravati
6. Mahendra Kompalwar, village Hatgoan, Yavatmal
7. Yogesh Mirage, village Bhastan, Shegaon

As per Congress NCP, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilas Rao Deshmukh's, political wisdom :
1. Real blame for "wrongful media attention" by " Vested Interests " for raising issue of farmer suicides and distracting attention, from the glorious success of Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh's Vidarbha Relief package for debt ridden cotton farmers, announced during Indian Prime Minister's visit to Vidarbha GM cotton belt, in 2006.
2. That all rural suicides, are being credited to the account of agrarian suicides, whereas according to him, these suicides are not agrarian suicides. So now, the CM has jumped into the fray of issuing post mortem certificates after Shri Sudhir Kumar Goyal, IAS, Relief Commissioner, and other bureaucrats.
According to him, the Congress Party / NCP, should be the arbiter of the reasons for suicides, and people should refuse to be misled by "vested interests".
3. TV channels are wrongfully showing strips of Vidarbha suicides.
4. Has claimed that suicides are generalized social problems and have nothing at all to do with rural and agrarian distress, or any Farm Exit Policy of Indian Congress government.
5. Has asked the media and publicity mongers, to wait for 3-4 more years, before the start of Second Green Revolution, as announced by the Delhi and Mumbai based Congress politicians, and massive state investments in irrigation projects in Vidarbha, begins to show results on the faces of Vidarbha farmers and suicide figures begin to show a declining trend.

01/03/2007 - Chidambaram Budget

Western vidarbha :
Indian Budget Day suicides :

1. Ravindra Keshv Raut, Khamapur village, Amaravati district,
2. Sudhakar Nagorao Kohle, Ralegoan,
3. Viththal Madhav Nikode, Saikheda village,
4. Umesh Ramrao Borwal, Belori village, Yavatmal district,
5. Suresh Kashiram Banapure, Nandgoanpeth village, Amravati district
6. Gajanan Pandurang Khadase, Panjari village, Washim district

26/02/2007

Western Vidarbha :
1. Pawan Rameshwar Sadashiv, Kushta villaage, Maravati distt.
2. Rameshwar gangaram Darkate, village Wani-rabhapur, Akola distt.
3. Parmeshwar laxman Gorganle, Jamulghat, Chandrapur dist.
4. Shiriram syryabha Jewala, Paharadevi, Washim distt.
5. Mahan appa Giri, manoda, in Buldhana
6. Prabhakar waman Sawai, village Kat mamla, Maravati
7. Ganesh narayan tike, vilage Masani, Washim
8. Ramhrishnna motiram Gairnar, vilage Rohana
9. Sakharam gajan Choudhari, village Jurur, Yavatmal
10. Santosh mahadev Dandale, village Paras, Akola
11. Rahul Narayan Chinche, village Krurha, Yavatmal.