{"id":900,"date":"2020-03-31T11:48:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T06:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/?p=900"},"modified":"2020-03-31T11:48:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T06:48:46","slug":"govt-urged-to-protect-rights-of-small-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/?p=900","title":{"rendered":"Govt urged to protect rights of small farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"template__header  clearfix    modifier--open        px-1  \">\n<div class=\"    my-3  sm-ml-0  ml-1  block  sm-inline-block  float-none  sm-float-left\"><span class=\"story__byline    font-arial    \">Bureau Report<\/span><span class=\"story__time    font-arial    \">March 30, 2020<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"block  sm-inline-block  clearfix  float-none  sm-float-right\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"social  hidden  sm-block    social--print    social--icon  social--black  social--flat      float-left    mr-1  my-2\">PESHAWAR: The organisations working for welfare of peasants and farmers have called upon the government to ensure that the lockdowns and quarantines are not carried out at the expense of the food security of the people.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"template__main  clearfix    modifier--open        px-1  modifier--widedefault  modifier--blockquote-center-narrow  \">\n<div class=\"story__content  overflow-hidden          pt-1  mt-1\">\n<p>They asked the government to provide immediate economic relief to the marginalised sectors including the landless rural people.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the \u201cDay of the Landless\u201d on Sunday, two organisations Roots for Equity and Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT), asked the government to ensure that no further displacements of the rural people from their lands and livelihood were carried out in the pretext of Covid-19 lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The organisatons state that they commemorate the Day of the Landless with utmost concern as the landless rural people are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--adjustable my-4 hidden sm-block py-4\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Organisations say landless rural people vulnerable to impacts of Covid-19 pandemic<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a media release, they state that with many countries implementing sweeping lockdowns and quarantines often with vague operational guidelines, to contain the spread of Covid-19, the agriculture and food supply chain faces great disruption with an escalating price-hike already sending food prices to very high levels.<\/p>\n<p>They say that landless peasants along with small farmers are forced to work in a variety of oppressive conditions on lands under feudal ownership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen growers particularly work under double tier of exploitation at the hands of landlord as well as patriarchy. Along with this, capitalist agriculture through its mega corporations has captured agricultural production and markets resulting in a huge increase in the percentages of the landless,\u201d they say.<\/p>\n<p>They claim that the landless workers are forced to work in the informal sector on daily wages in a variety of situations. \u201cTogether with the rest of ordinary toiling people, they bear the brunt of the raging public health crisis of Covid-19 that has paralysed almost all economic activities and pushed them to further food insecurity and poverty,\u201d they maintain.<\/p>\n<p>They say that livelihoods in jeopardy the small producers and poor consumers are suffering the major brunt of the lockdown. They add that in addition, with total ban on inter and intra-provincial travel, agriculture workers and other daily wagers have no means of finding work.<\/p>\n<p>They fear that the Covid-19 may be used as cover up to further harass and dislocate farming communities as part of evictions under land grabbing for corporate interests.<\/p>\n<p><em>Published in Dawn, March 30th, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1544871\/govt-urged-to-protect-rights-of-small-farmers\">https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1544871\/govt-urged-to-protect-rights-of-small-farmers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bureau ReportMarch 30, 2020 PESHAWAR: The organisations working for welfare of peasants and farmers have called upon the government to ensure that the lockdowns and quarantines are not carried out at the expense of the food security of the people. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/?p=900\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23,4,11,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farmers","category-food-sovereignty","category-landless","category-resistance","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}