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Dhenkanal,,Odisha,,

Bhuban, Kamakhyanagar, Kankadahad, Dhenkanal Sadar and Gondia Blocks of Dhenkanal District in Odisha were gheraoed by hundreds of workers of Krishak Sangharsh Samiti on 4^th, 5^th, 7^th, 8^th and 9^th March by the leadership of emerging Krishak youth leader Engineer Debashisha Hota.

A Demand Note of 17 demands has been handed over to respective BDOs by the respective block presidents Mr. Patitapaban Nayak, Mr. Pramod Kumar Sethy, Mr. Bhagirathi Baral, Mr Nabakishore Khatua and Mr. Sudhanshu Mohan Nayak in presence of all karyakartas of the samiti.

The collector should recommend the central and state governments to increase the paddy price to 15 hundred from the coming year with an automatic increase of 30 percent in every year, give a “Krishak Bhatta” of minimum 3 thousand per month to the farmers of above 58 years depending only on agriculture for their survival,  declare full rebate on farmers’ loan due to drought for scarcity in rain and then untimely rain,  insure the farmers’ freely, the demands included.

The collector should give stress on same-day certification of the foundation seeds, transfer the elephants to nearest wild-lives to protect the crops, suspend the officials who do not use moisture machines to establish the moisture percentage during paddy collection, take serious actions against the corrupted officials for whom the real farmers do not get subsidized seeds, fertilizers and agriculture equipments and do boring-wells in every hectare farm land.

The district administration will be responsible for the consequences if the collector will not fulfill our demands within 4^th April’2011, Er. Hota added.