After the meeting, farmer leader Darshan Pal said that famers will launch a bigger movement than the one in 2020. He said that another meeting will be convened on April 30 in Delhi.
Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, on Sunday, lauded the work of WFP in promoting food self-sufficiency and supporting governmental and global efforts to ensure long-term solutions to the challenge of hunger.
"If the BJP government in the centre increases the price of rubber to 300 per kg, the migrant farmers of their church will vote and make BJP win," he said on Saturday.
The weather change in Shahjahanpur Neemrana Behrod of Alwar district has increased the problems of farmers as heavy rain accompanied by strong wind and hail damaged crops in the region.
Former Education Minister and current Congress MLA from Jhajjar, Geeta Bhukkal has demanded that the government should conduct a special Girdawari (a document, in which the patwari enters the name of the owner, cultivator, land number, area, kind of land, cultivated and non-cultivated area,
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Sunday asked officials to assess the crop losses due to unseasonal rains so that help could be given to the affected farmers.
Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has instructed the officers to conduct relief work in view of rain and hailstorm in various districts, according to a statement by the chief minister's office. He has instructed to provide permissible relief amount of Rs 4 lakh to each
In order to draw the attention of the government to a 17-point charter demand, thousands of farmers had begun a march from Dindori in Maharashtra's Nashik district on Sunday last and will cover 200 kms to reach Mumbai.