Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 14: All J&K Kissan Union (AJKKU) has urged the Union Government to reconsider the proposal of providing crop insurance on minimum premium and to take a decision to provide free crop and cattle insurance to the farmers by incorporating the provision in the forthcoming Budget session.
In a meeting of the Union held here today under the chairmanship of former legislator Ashok Sharma, it was resolved that unless crop and cattle insurance is made available, any proposal for scheme of Government of India for farmers is impracticable and useless for them.
The Kissan Union leader urged the Prime Minister of India and Union Minister for Agriculture, to reconsider the proposal of providing crop insurance on minimum premium and to take a decision to provide free crop and cattle insurance to the farmers of India by incorporating the provision in the Budget session.
Mr Sharma said the farmers are the sufferers of Government apathy as well as the cruelty of nature for long time and are not in position to pay premium for crop insurance. They have suffered because of the climatic change, un-precedential rains, droughts, earth quake etc. Unfortunately, the farming remained by and large neglected and unorganized sector resulting in depletion of plight of the farmers, even the constitutional provisions providing empowerment to ruralites has been denied.
Farmers are being regarded as backbone of the nation, contributed its might in the freedom struggle with the mission to enjoy freedom, improve quality of life and acquire more respected status in the society, now has reached to a situation where their children have abandoned their profession due to injustice done to them.
He said those claiming to restore the lost glory, while depriving the farming community of its due share are building castles in the air. The slogan of providing employment to the youth by industrialization, share market and anti-agriculture policies thereby providing huge budgetary allocations in such sectors, can never achieve the goal unless agriculture is declared as an industry providing special monitory and technical inputs reaching to the land to make farming as economically viable, he added.
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