Date:09/02/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/02/09/stories/2008020956000300.htm

Karnataka - Mysore

Three-day workshop to discuss agrarian crisis

Staff Correspondent

MYSORE: Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) will be holding a three-day workshop at Malemahadeshwara Betta in Chamarajanagar from February 10 to discuss the problems being faced by the farming community in the State.

Speaking to The Hindu, General Secretary KRRS Honnuru Prakash said that the agrarian sector had been deteriorating over the years because of the detrimental policies formulated by successive Governments in recent years.

Hundreds of farmers were committing suicides because of their inability to repay debts borrowed from money lenders and financial institutions. Failure by the successive Governments in fixing a scientific price for the agriculture produce and loopholes in the marketing system had further frustrated them.

Aim

The workshop was being organised to chalk out the future course of action, he added. The venue of the workshop has been named after Prof. M.D. Nanjunadaswamy, one of the founders of KRRS. Sangha President Kodihalli Chandrashekar would be inaugurating it.

Eminent scholars will be delivering speeches on the theme. Former Judge F.M. Saldana will deliver the valedictory address, Mr. Prakash said.