Farmers are not opposing Adani-Ambani like this, PM himself is repeatedly confirming their doubts
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(How much do you know about Bill Gates?)Some know him as the founder of Microsoft, some know him as the third richest man in the world and others know him as a big vocal activist for issues like human rights and climate change. However, you would hardly know that Bill Gates is the largest owner of agricultural land in the US and he has a total of 2,42,000 acres of agricultural land worth more than $ 69 million.Bill Gates's total land area is more than the area of Hong Kong, not only that, as much agricultural land is owned by Bill Gates, the Native Americans also do not have it. Bill Gates is an example from which the capitalists' greed for the land can be understood and this example is important for today's New India. The opposition to agricultural laws in the country may have disappeared from the news, but it has not stopped. One of the many characteristics of this movement is the strong voice raised against the two big capitalists of the country by this movement. The problem is that the government, media, social media, saffron brigade, police and the courts all suppress the issues related to the common people in our country and the general public is busy in arranging the bread for two times.The farmers had categorically stated that Adani-Ambani would buy grain in the private agricultural market on its own terms and price and then sell it in the market with huge profits. Farmers also say that farming will be made so difficult and difficult for small farmers that they will have no choice but to sell their land, and after this, Adani-Ambani will start buying farmers' land at cheap prices and gradually Slowly, most of the agricultural land in the country will be owned by this industrialist. Then the crops, the food style of the people and the market will change everything according to their convenience and profits. The government and Adani-Ambani have been constantly clarifying from their side that such doubts of farmers are unmistakable and nothing like this is going to happen. But is that right? Ted Turner, the second US billionaire and head of the big media empire, also has about 2 million acres of land, in which he raises buffaloes. . It is the largest buffalo habitat in the US, but most of its land is not arable. America and India have many similarities in agriculture, America has seen the condition of farmers and farming in India in the 1970s and 1980s. Farming was a way of life for farmers in India at that time and the rural economy and environment depended entirely on it. According to Andrew Flauchs, professor of anthropology at Purdue University in the United States of America, the Midwest region of America is a mirror of India's rural life. Probably for this reason, 87 farmer organizations of America sent a letter on 21 February in support of the farmers agitating on the Ghazipur border of Delhi, in which it was written that American farmers also support the demands of Indian farmers and American farmers are doing so round about Have seen 4 decades ago. In the US too, farmer suicides are 45 percent higher than the general rural population. Major changes were made to America's agricultural system in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Government support was almost stopped, interest rates on debt were wildly raised, and prices of agricultural products began to fall drastically due to the free global economy. During that time, tractors and trucks were paraded by farmers in the capital, Washington DC and other big cities. This was followed by Ronald Reagan's election slogan 'America Is Back' in the 1981 presidential election. In his election speeches, Reagan heavily capitalized on the issue of farmers. He had some promises - he would rejuvenate rural America, make agriculture a profitable profession again, encourage small farmers, create a free market where farmers can get the required price for their produce and farmers' reputation in society Will increase. Remembering the promises of Ronald Reagan, it is evident that he would have remembered his Prime Minister Modi. Promises get votes all over the world and Ronald Reagan was elected president in America as well and farmers played a big role in his victory. After becoming President, Reagan took a lot of steps in the name of farmers, calling each step a bold and unique one in the world, but within a few years almost all small farmers in America had to sell their farm land and only very large Only the farmers with land remained. In the same period, industrial scale farming was introduced and cash crop sector started to grow in place of traditional crops. From 1983 to 1985, almost all the small farmers gave up the profession of farming and were forced to sell their fields. In the United States of Iowa, in April 1983, more than 500 small farmers sold their fields. In today's era, America has only 3 percent of its population dependent on total agriculture and each farmer has an average of 178 hectares of agricultural land. In India, an average farmer owns just 1.06 hectares of agricultural land. In America, farming is in the hands of the rich, 1 percent of the farmers or companies there own more than 70 percent of the total agricultural land. Prime Minister of India also talks a lot about the interest of farmers, talks about doubling their income, claims to improve the rural economy, but the reality is that farmers are more helpless than ever with every promise of Modi ji. And it is becoming helpless. Such is the community of farmers in our country, who has understood every jumla of the Prime Minister and is not going to be deceived at the moment. He knows whom Prime Minister Modi wants to benefit through agricultural bills. Modi ji is only reaffirming his doubts, because if he had taken care of the interests of the farmers and their problems, then obviously he would have listened to the farmers as well. On the other hand, Adani-Ambani has said that they are neither buying agricultural produce nor farmers' land. Even before Adani got the airports to his name, he had never said that he was making such a plan, or Ambani had not said this before submitting himself to the government oil refinery. Adani is not talking about buying agricultural produce, but many places in the country are building big state-of-the-art grain storage centers and telling farmers that they are building these storage centers for FCI, although this claim has been confirmed till date It has not been done by the government or FCI. Once we also assume that all are being prepared for FCI, the question is how long will it take for Adani to capture FCI? It is true that the name of Adani or Ambani has not come up in the matter of buying or occupying land for farming, but the acquisition of agricultural land for other purposes is repeated by keeping all laws and threatening the local residents repeatedly. Has been done. Adani is notorious in this case, but the local administration, police, state governments, the central government and the judiciary often oppress local residents and support Adani in illegal land acquisition or plunder of land. In this case, the frontline magazine Frontline did a cover story titled The Great Landgrab in the issue of May 17, 2013. Adani was given 10,000 hectares of land in the name of Mundra Special Economic Zone in Gujarat, which is said to be fallow land or waste land, which is of no use. However, the truth was that most of the land in it was agricultural land and despite opposition from local farmers, it was grabbed on the strength of strength. It is said of this gift given to Adani that after the Godhra incident of 2002, when the image of the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi began to be tarnished internationally, Gautam Adani, on his own, in 2003, in Gujarat, of many big industrialists of the world The summit was organized and after this the tarnished image of Modi as the messiah of development and industry suddenly became established and foreign investment in Gujarat increased manifold. Adani was gifted to the Mundra Special Economic Zone for this feat and the chain of gifts has not yet stopped but the scale has become bigger. Modi ji is sitting on the chair of the Prime Minister of the country, more than the Chief Minister of Gujarat. Now, whatever land Adani and Ambani put their hands on, that land belongs to them and those who protest go to jail. This was done in Godda, Jharkhand, where 2000 hectares of agricultural land was acquired from farmers to set up Adani's thermal power plant. Apparently, the day Adani-Ambani wants land for agriculture, it will be snatched from the farmers and evicted from them and given as a gift. Land is the power of the rich, it is a property and it is also a symbol of the threat of power. Who owns the land, who works on the land and who takes care of the land - the three represent different sections of society. This is also the major reason for the inequality of the society worldwide. When the rich do farming, they give it the name of eco-friendly farming, the name of Green Capitalism, but they are actually destroying society and the environment and taking away the morsel of the poor. |