Agrarian crisis
| Event Start Date: 3rd March 2019 | Event End Date: 3rd March 2019 | Event Venue: New Delhi |
Announcement
National Conference for Special Session of
Parliament on Agrarian Crisis March 1-3, 2019
India International Centre, New Delhi
The Nation for Farmer’s all India Conference for Special Session of Parliament on Agrarian Crisis will bring together farmers, workers, women, youth and their organizations, intellectuals/academicians and activists networks on March 1 and 2, 2019 to discuss and deliberate the proposed agenda for special session on Agrarian Crisis.
The Nation for Farmers platform members and volunteers will meet to discuss future campaign plan and strategy on March 3, 2019.
You are requested to confirm your participation in the proposed conference and convention by return mail. Detailed programme will follow in due course of time.
With warm regards
Anil Chaudhary, Dinesh Abrol, ND Jayaprakash, P. Sainath
Nation for Farmers
Conference and Convention
1st to 3rd March 2019
Kamladevi Block, India International Centre, New Delhi
Tentative Programme
| DAY ONE | FRIDAY, 1ST MARCH 2019 | ||
| 09:00–9.30 | REGISTRATION | ||
| 9.30–13:00 | Inaugural Session | Overview on Current Agrarian Questions | |
| Moderator (s) | P. Sainath and Hanan Mollah | ||
| Panelists | Utsa Patnaik, Ashok Dhawale, Ulka Mahajan, Nikhil Dey, K B Saxena
Dinesh Abrol to place the Issues Paper Open Discussion |
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| 13:00–14:00 | LUNCH | ||
| 14:00-17:00 | Session 1 | Access and Control over Land, Water, Natural Resources and Inputs for Crop Production, Livestock and Fisheries: Issue of Exclusion | |
| Moderator (s) | Anil Chaudhury and Vijoo Krishnan | ||
| Panelists | Jaya Mehta, Sucha Singh Gill, K.J. Joy, Shalini Bhutani, Sagari Ramdas, Sudhindra Sharma
Open Discussion |
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| DAY TWO | SATURDAY, 2ND MARCH 2019 | ||
| 09:30–11:00 | Session 3 | Credit, Agricultural Markets, Prices and Incomes | |
| Moderator | Jayati Ghosh and Vijay Jawandhia | ||
| Panelists | Ram Kumar, G.V. Ramanjaneyulu, S.S. Sangwan. Devidas Tuljapurkar, | ||
| 11:00-11:30 | TEA Break | ||
| 11.30-12.00 | Open Discussion
Session 3 continued Credit, Agricultural Markets, Prices and Incomes s, Prices and Incomes |
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| 12.00-13:30 | Session 4 | Agricultural Labour and Rural Employment | |
| Moderator | Praveen Jha and Navin Chandra | ||
| Panelists | Himanshu, Atul Sood, Dunu Roy, Chandan, Suneet Chopra, | ||
| 13:30-14:30 | LUNCH
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| 14.30-15.00 | Open Discussion
Session 4 continued Agricultural Labour and Rural Employment |
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| 15:00-16:30 | Session 5 | Productivity and Sustainability: Agroecological Approaches | |
| Moderator | Parthiba Basu, and Kiran Vissa | ||
| Panelists | Arindam Banerjee, Neelachal Acharya, Aruna Rodrigues, Archana Prasad, Rana Pratap Singh, Rajendra Chaudhuri
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| 16.30-17.00 | TEA
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| 17.00-18.00 | Open discussion
Session 5 continued Productivity and Sustainability: Agro-ecological Approaches
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| DAY THREE | SUNDAY 3RD MARCH 2019 | ||
| 09.30-11.30 | Session 6
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Agricultural Transformation: Role of the State, Science, Laws and Regulations, Cooperatives and Movements of Crop Farmers, Fishermen, Dairy Farmers, Agricultural Labour, Artisans and Consumers
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| Moderator | Gopal Krishna and Krishna Prasad | ||
| Panelists | D.N. Reddy, Suman Sahai, Som Marla, Vineet Tiwari. Lakhvinder Singh Gill, Baljit Singh Bhayan, R B Singh (TBC), Roshan Kishore (TBC) Open Discussion | ||
| 11:30–12:00 | TEA | ||
| 12.00-14.00 | Convention | Session with Representatives of Mass and Class Movements
P Sainath to introduce report of NFF, strategy and campaign theme for discussion in the convention |
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| 14.00-15.00 | LUNCH | ||
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15.00-17.00 |
Deliberations on Strategy and Campaign Planning and
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P. Sainath (Moderator)
Introductory remarks from Anil Choudhary, Dinesh Abrol, N.D. Jayaprakash, and Gopal Krishna for getting started with the discussion on NFF strategy and campaign Concluding remarks (P. Sainath) |
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