Chandrashekar, president of the Mysuru unit of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat, has said that one of the sessions at the Mysuru Zilla Kannada Sahitya Sammelan in H.D. Kote on August 11 and 12 will be dedicated to farmers. Causes and solutions for farmers’ suicide will be among the prominent issues that will be discussed threadbare at the session.
Mr. Chandrashekar told The Hindu here on Tuesday that the session that will be held under the banner of ‘Krishi Badukina Thallanagalu’ is expected to chalk out solutions for various problems of farmers, including price crash, and debts. Farmers, agriculture scientists, writers and scholars will participate in the session, and later an interactive session with farmers will also be held, he said.
“Inaction” of the successive governments to fix a rational price for agricultural produce, andhow farmers are taken for a ride by private financiers, middlemen, and commission agents would be discussed at the session, Mr. Chandrashekar said.
Loan schemes of the different financial institutions such as PLD Bank and cooperative institutions, besides absence of a proper market place for farmers to sell their agricultural produce for a remunerative price are other issues that will be focussed upon at the sammelan.
According to Mr. Chandrashekar, the sammelan will also discuss ways and means of making available small loans to get over domestic problems as this would prevent farmers from going to private financiers to avail loans for their domestic needs at a high rate of interest. He added that writers have been asked to analyse the reason for farmers’ suicides, and ways to prevent them.
Eminent writers to deliver lectures besides engaging in interactive sessions with audience
