Route from Ramlila Maidan to Parliament Street shared the stories of thousands of debt-ridden farmers who had gathered and demanded loan waiver
“An actor’s son dreams of becoming an actor, a politician’s son wants to be a politician but a farmer’s son does not want to be a farmer,” said Daal Chand from Amroha in Uttar Pradesh. According to Chand, it is not just a farmer but a farmer’s family as well which is dragged into the cycle of repaying debts. Chand was among the protestors who participated in the Kisan Kranti Morcha rally organised on Friday from the Ramlila Maidan to Parliament Street in protest of the decreasing cost of farmers produce.
“Sons of farmers in our area call farming a profession of losses. The entire family gets dragged in the cycle of paying debts, moreover, the amount a farmer invests on his land and the returns are totally opposite,” said Chand.
He further added that from a time when our children would be ready to take up farming, we have now reached a point that our children are running away from it. Prices of everything increased but the price of sugarcane compared to last year remains the same in our state as announced by the Chief Minister. “Yet, the rotis that our countrymen, including our Prime Minister, eat are made from the wheat we farmers yield,” said Daal Chand.
Farmers who grow sugarcane said they had not even received the money from the sugar mill for the sugarcanes they had given them last year. For 35-year-old Gagan Kurer from Raichur in Karnataka, he is barely earning hand-to-mouth. The situation had made it worse as he is unable to get married due to the financial issues.
“I had been helping my father in the farms since I was 19. I have seen my father struggle every day. The situation at home is getting worse on daily basis forcing me not to marry. This is not just one houses problem if you look around here, all the farmers who earn 200 per day have traveled to the capital in order to make their voices heard,” said Kurer.
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