Government officials on their way to evacuate villagers at Baliapal in Balasore district on Monday
BHUBANESWAR: Right from the Super Cyclone in 1999 to Amphan last year, cyclonic storms have hardly ever spared horticulture crops in the state. Trees bearing fruits such as mangoes, papayas, bananas, guavas, pineapples and others have always been the first to be knocked off by cyclones.
When Phailin had hit the state in 2013, thousands of farmers had lost their trees and faced huge losses. More than 43,000 hectares of horticulture crops were damaged in three districts Ganjam, Puri and Khurda.
Similarly, Cyclone Fani in 2019 and Amphan in 2020 had wreaked havoc by destrying both perennial and horticultural crops. While Fani had damaged crops spread over more than one lakh hectares of land, Amphan had done the same last year.
BHUBANESWAR: Farmers led by their outfits on Saturday staged dharna and hunger strike at different places of the state in order to show solidarity to the farmer movement in Delhi and protesting the farm laws.
All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), an umbrella organisation of different farmer outfits, organised the hunger strike and dharnas at Lower PMG in Bhubaneswar, some places in Puri, Kendrapada, Gajapati Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Dhenkanal, Bhadrak, Cuttack, Kalahandi, Sundargarh, Ganjam, Rayagada like districts.
Suresh Panigrahy, state convenor of AIKSCC, said they organised the hunger strike along with dharnas on the martyrdom day of Mahatma Gandhi to silently protest the government move against the agitating farmers in Delhi border. “We have staged dharnas and Satyagrahs at panchayat, block, district and state level demanding withdrawal of the farm laws immediately and legal protection for ensuring minimum support price (MSP) of agricultural products,”
BHUBANESWAR: Farmer outfits in the state will hold protest marches in the state capital and district headquarters on the occasion of the Republic Day to express solidarity to the farmer movement in Delhi. Their major demands are repealing farm laws and ensuring minimum support price (MSP) of agricultural produces by the government.
The farmers under the banner of All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), an umbrella forum of several farmer outfits in the country including Odisha, will hold these protest marches. Similarly, western Odisha farmer outfits will hold a tractor and bike rally at Balangir town on Tuesday protesting farm laws.
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A Nihang Sikh distributing lassi at the farmers protest site at GT Karnal Road Haryana-Delhi Singhu Border in the Capital on Monday. | Photo Credit:
Shiv Kumar Pushpakar
On Day 19, Delhi Police boost security at borders
At Singhu border on Monday, as the farmers’ protest entered the 19th day, leaders of various organisations observed a day-long fast in solidarity with farmers across the country.
Avtar Singh Mehma, State Press Secretary of Krantikari Kisan Union Punjab, said 33 leaders were part of the hunger strike.