Citizens’ letter (incl. farmer leaders and agri scientists) to ICAR against multiple recent MoUs with agri-corporations
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From: ASHA Kisan Swaraj <asha.kisanswaraj@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Subject: MoUs that ICAR has been signing with various corporations including Bayer, Syngenta and Amazon – reg.
To: <dg.icar@nic.in>
Cc: <agrimin.india@gmail.com>
To: July 20th, 2024
Dr Himanshu Pathak,
Director-General of
Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) &
Secretary, Dept of Agricultural Research & Education (DARE),
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare,
Government of India.
Email: dg.icar@nic.in
Dear Dr Himanshu Pathak,
Sub: MoUs that ICAR has been signing with various corporations including Bayer, Syngenta and Amazon – reg.
Greetings! This is a much-delayed letter from all of us to you, to express our serious concerns with the series of MoUs that ICAR has been going on signing with various corporate entities over the past several months.
In June 2023, ICAR signed an MoU with Amazon Kisan. It was reported that this was done to combine strengths and create synergy between the two organisations for guiding the farmers on scientific cultivation of crops. ICAR will provide technological backstopping to the farmers through Amazon’s network, it was stated, but through leveraging ICAR’s own KVKs! It is unclear what is the problem this MoU is trying to address, when ICAR and its KVKs have been working together in any case. “This MoU will also ensure high quality fresh produce for consumers across India through Amazon Fresh” it is stated, though no further details are available to understand how this would happen. This was termed as “Public Private Peasants Partnership” (PPPP). A press release also states that the MoU is an outcome of a pilot project between ICAR KVK and Amazon in Pune; however, no more details are available about the pilot.
One more announcement on ICAR website/covered in media reports blandly states that ICAR and Bayer signed an MoU in September 2023 to “develop resource-efficient, climate-resilient solutions for crops, varieties, crop protection, weed and mechanisation”, and that the collaboration will focus on agriculture sustainability, to develop carbon credit markets and providing advisory services to farmers. Bayer is a company notorious for its anti-people, anti-nature business products and operations in itself and furthermore after its takeover of Monsanto. Its deadly poisons have violated basic human rights of peoples across the world, and it is a company that has always prioritised profits over people and planet. Surely ICAR as an institution is aware of the dark history of this global corporation, which has maintained double standards for Indian farmers and citizens, while succumbing to public pressure in the developed world when it comes to its products and practices. It is not clear what ICAR will learn from Bayer that the well-paid public sector scientists of the institution cannot develop themselves. What is the arrangement for IPRs on what gets developed including varieties and other technologies? Does the ICAR believe that Bayer will deliver advisories to farmers which will not further its own business goals and that such advisories cannot be given by the public sector extension departments as well as ICAR’s KVKs in the country?
Further, ICAR signed an MoU with Dhanuka Agritech in March 2024, in the name of “delivering new technology to farmers”, for Dhanuka to provide trainings related to agricultural production to smallholder farmers in the country. What is more ironical is that this entity which profiteers out of toxic chemicals is supposed to promote natural farming with farmers, as an aim of the MoU!
ICAR also signed an MoU with Coromandel International in June 2024, for “collaboration to provide improved crop management practices and advance crop nutrition to farmers in Maharashtra”. Curiously, the agriculture research establishment has always taken a hands-off stand when it comes to extension services, staying in its own silo of doing research activities, whereas it is now collaborating with private entities with vested interests to take some technologies to farmers. We would like to know what ICAR has done to “bring advanced nutrition and crop management practices to farmers in Maharashtra based on soil information and farm advisories provided by NBSS&LUP” through the state agriculture extension departments, and why a private profiteering corporation was needed for the purpose.
As this letter was getting finalised with hundreds of scientists, farmer leaders, farmers and ordinary citizens signing on, news reports informed readers that ICAR has signed an MoU with Syngenta, for promoting climate resilient agriculture and training programs. By doing so, ICAR has allowed a corporation with a track record of many anti-nature, anti-people activities, for toxic products like paraquat and “polo”, class action suits against its corn seeds and settlements therefrom, or anti-competitive behaviour etc., to indulge in greenwashing.
The above are only a few examples. A reading of all the scarce information put out in the public domain points to the following:
a. That ICAR is tying up with private corporations, including ones with notorious history of peddling toxic products, for developing “solutions” including crop varieties. That is the primary mandate of ICAR itself, where taxpayers’ funds are going to the NARS for doing this. Is this then a statement on ICAR failing in its stated mandate? Where is the need for collaborations with private entities? How are such private entities being selected? More specifically, what is the IPR arrangement in each such instance?
b. Where did any public debate take place, or public policy get put in place after deliberative democratic processes run, around carbon credits markets and whether and how they should be leveraged, by who and under what regulation? Why is ICAR facilitating these and under what specific mandate that it has?
c. ICAR is also tying up with private corporations, for practices and technologies to be provided to farmers. The latter is the mandate of public agri-extension departments and even KVKs to an extent. Why are the corporations needed, and is there not a clear conflict of interest in these collaborations? How is the ICAR ensuring that the farmers actually get advisories on best available options and not biased advisories that further the business motives of the corporations mainly? Is this also a statement on India’s extension systems failing, as per ICAR? Have the extension departments of state governments been consulted about such MoUs, when agriculture is a state subject as per our Constitution?
d. We did not find copies of the MoUs and the results of pilots being shared proactively in the public domain by ICAR. Will ICAR upload these onto its website, including the financial implications on the public sector NARS?
e. Does ICAR have any efforts being undertaken to get into MoUs with farmers’ organisations, and if yes, can the full details of the same be publicised?
f. What is the system or protocol in place for ICAR to pick up its research and education agendas from the farmers it is supposed to serve, rather than pick up the whims and business ideas of corporations as the research needs of farmers of the country?
It is clear to us that entities that have been responsible for causing an economic and environmental crisis in our agriculture are being partnered by ICAR, for so-called solutions when these entities are only interested in their profits and not sustainability (or any other nomenclature they use). On the other hand, public sector bodies like ICAR are accountable ultimately to the public of India given that they run on taxpayers’ funds.
In this context, we write to you to request you
(i) to suspend the implementation of the signed MoUs immediately,
(ii) to share all details in the public domain including copies of the MoUs and reports of pilots being alluded to,
(iii) to stop signing any more such MoUs without widespread debates on the same; and
(iv) initiate consultations with farmers’ organisations on the way forward about the objectives of economic profitability, environmental sustainability and social equity in Indian agriculture.
Sincerely,
1. Kavitha Kuruganti, Co-Convenor, Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA), Bangalore
2. Kapil Shah, Jatan-A Mission for Sajiv Kheti, Vadodara
3. Ananthoo, Food Safety Activist, Chennai
4. Kiran Vissa, Convenor, Rythu Swarajya Vedika, Hyderabad
5. Sridhar Radhakrishnan, Co-Convenor, Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA), Trivandrum
Copy to: Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Hon’ble Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India
Endorsed by:
1. Dr Aishwarya J, IIT Madras, Chennai
2. Dr Amitabha Basu, Retired scientist, CSIR-NPL, New Delhi
3. Dr Anamik Shah, Environmental Research Foundation of India, Rajkot, Gujarat
4. Dr Arun Dixit, Ahmedabad
5. Dr Arun Kumar, Gurgaon, Haryana
6. Dr Ashok Kumar Somal, BJA, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh
7. Dr Ashok Yadav, Abu Road, Rajasthan
8. Dr Balaji Krishnasamy, SPG Organic Farms, Pondicherry
9. Dr Baldev Singh Shergill, Punjabi University, Talwandi Sabo, Punjab
10. Dr Basavi Kiro, Indigenous Women India Network, Ranchi, Jharkhand
11. Dr Chandrakala Gowda, Hyderabad, Telangana
12. Dr Chandrasekar, Bangalore, Karnataka
13. Dr D. Jeevan Kumar, Bangalore, Karnataka
14. Dr Dhiraj Singh, Ganganagar, Meerut
15. Dr Dinesh Abrol, Delhi Science Forum and Nation For Farmers, Delhi
16. Dr Sunilam, Kisan Sangharsh Samiti/NAPM/BAA/RKM/SKM, Vill Parmandal/ Multapi/Betul, MP
17. Dr Vasudha Amruthur Ramashastry, Bangalore
18. Dr Krithika Yegna, Chennai
19. Dr N Kanaka Durga, Principal Scientist (Retd.), IARI, ICAR, Kukatpally, Hyderabad
20. Dr G. Usha Reddy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
21. Dr Goel, Madikeri, Karnataka
22. Dr Gopal Dabade, Drug Action Forum – Karnataka, Dharwad
23. Dr Gopal Krishna, ToxicsWatch, New Delhi
24. Dr Jayachandran E S, College of Engineering Attingal, Thrissur, Kerala
25. Dr Kalpana, ROOTS, Tamil Nadu
26. Dr Kamala Menon, Delhi Science Forum, Delhi
27. Dr Koya Venkateswara Rao, President-Jana Vignana Vedika, Telangana
28. Dr Krithika, Chennai
29. Dr Lalit Dhurve, GH Raisoni University, Saikhedha, Betul, Madhya Pradesh
30. Dr Mallikarjuna Dambal, Atharva Ayurdhama, Shivamogga, Karnataka
31. Dr Manjunath, Gandhian School of Natural Farming, Tumakuru, Karnataka
32. Dr Mira Shiva M.D (Medicine), Public Health Physician, New Delhi
33. Dr Narasimha Reddy Donthi, Hyderabad
34. Dr Narasimha Reddy Duvvuru, University of Hyderabad, Lingampally, Hyderabad Telangana
35. Dr Padmini Raghavan, Our Sacred Space promoting heirloom seeds, organic food and farmer-friendly practices, Secunderabad, Telangana
36. Dr Pawan Kumar Muntha, Hyderabad
37. Dr Piyush Khare, Swaraj Vidyapeeth, Prayagraj
38. Dr Prasanna Kumar S G, M.S.Ramaiah College of Arts Science and Commerce, Bengaluru, Karnataka
39. Dr Pratap Singh Tiwari, Rama Farmers Producer Co. Ltd., Kalaburgi, Karnataka
40. Dr Purendra Prasad N, University of Hyderabad, Telangana
41. Dr R Ramachandran, Freelance Science Journalist
41. Dr Ramadas K, Davangere, Karnataka
42. Dr Ramanand Girija, Kamaganahalli, Bangalore
43. Dr Ramesh Arora, Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab
44. Dr Ravichandran PK, Classic farms and hatcheries
45. Dr Rekha, Mysuru, Karnataka
46. Dr Renu Singh, Delhi
47. Dr Rupak Kumar, Freelancer, Delhi
48. Dr S. Asokan, Rtd. ICAR Scientist, Coimbatore
49. Dr S. Easwaramoorthy, Greenlife Biotech Laboratory, Coimbatore
50. Dr Safique Ul Alam, Breakthrough Science Society, Kolkata
51. Dr Sagari R Ramdas, Food Sovereignty Alliance India, Hyderabad
52. Dr Sanjay Mangala Gopal, National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), Thane, Maharashtra
53. Dr Santhosh Kumar Murugesan, Pudhucherry
54. Dr Sathish Babu, Gandhian School of Natural Farming, Bengaluru, Karnataka
55. Dr Shajehan S, Trivandrum, Kerala
56. Dr Sharad Sawant, Manav Sadhan Vikas Sanstha, Kudal, Maharashtra
57. Dr Shreekumar Sangatya, Udupi, Karnataka
58. Dr Siva Muthuprakash, Tamil Nadu Iyarkai Velan Kootamaippu, Chennai
59. Dr Soma Marla, (Retd. Principal Scientist) ICAR NBPGR, Hyderabad
60. Dr Srinivas Bhaskar, Bangalore
61. Dr Suchitra Ramkumar, Private practice, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
62. Dr Suhas Kolhekar, National Alliance of People’s Movements, Pune, Maharashtra
63. Dr Sujata Lakhani, Worldwide Association for Preservation and Restoration of Ecological Diversity, Madikeri, Karnataka
64. Dr Suman Sahai, Gene Campaign, Darima, Uttarakhand
65. Dr Thomas Jacob, Peermade Development Society, Peermade, Idukki, Kerala
66. Dr Uma Shankari, Farmer, Venkatramapuram, vallivedu p.o., Andhra Pradesh
67. Dr Usha R, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
68. Dr V Rukmini Rao, Gramya Resource Centre for Women, Nalgonda District, Telangana
69. Dr Vijoo Krishnan, All India Kisan Sabha, New Delhi
70. Dr Vinoth Kumar, Tamil Nadu
71. Dr Yogananda, S.B, Shivalli, Mandya, Karnataka
72. A S Chandrashekaraiah, Agriculturist, Jakkali village, Kollegala Tq, Chamarajanagar, Karnataka
73. A S Sathish Kumar, Forest Touch Pvt Ltd, Shivanahalli Village, Bangalore
74. Abhay Singh, Farmer, Kichha, Udhamsingh Nagar, Uttarakhand
75. Abhijith , Hindupur, Andhra Pradesh
76. Abhishek V.T, Hagaribommanahalli, Karnataka
77. Adarsh Murali, Bengaluru
78. Adarsh Raveendra, Bangalore
79. Adhiraj Dutt, Mirzapur
80. Aditya Kumar, Uganiya, Kollegal, Chamarajanagar, Karnataka
81. Afzal Zafrullah, Chennai
82. Ajit Maruti Chavan, Koyana Vasahat, Karad, Satara, Maharashtra
83. Ali Asghar Shabbir Ali, Mumbai
84. Amarinder Kaur, Bangalore
85. Ambika Yadav, NAPM Agriculture group, Ichagarh, Jharkhand
86. Amit Patil, Athani, Karnataka
87. Anand Yadwad, Kontev Bobalad, Jath Block, Sangli District, Maharashtra
88. Aneetha K, Hyderabad
89. Anil Mahajan, Chaatak Nature Conservation Society Jalgaon, Maharashtra, Varangaon Maharashtra
90. Anita Shyamkumar, Chennai, Tamilnadu
91. Anita Talreja, Mumbai
92. Annappa Gurappa Gouli , Madabavi, Vijayapura, Karnataka
93. Annapurna MS
94. Aravind, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu
95. Archana Kumar, Chengalpat, Tamil Nadu
96. Arjun Kapur, New Delhi
97. Arun S Savadatti, Karnataka
98. Arun Wakhlu, Foundation for Peace and Compassionate Leadership, Srinagar
99. Aruna Rodrigues, Mhow Cantt.. Madhya Pradesh
100. Arundhati David, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
101. Arup Rakshit, Mahatma Gandhi Gramodyog Seva Sanasthan, Purulia, West Bengal
102. Arvinda H K, Farmer, Tumakuru, Karnataka
103. Asha Kilaru, CIVIC, Bangalore, Karnataka
104. Ashish Kothari, Pune
105. Ashish Mhatre, Panvel, Maharashtra
106. Ashish Sehgal, Bangalore
107. Ashok Prakash, Rashtriya Kisani Manch, Aligarh, U.P.
108. Ashoka V, Chintamani, Chikkaballapur, Karnataka
109. Ashwin Lobo, Bangalore
110. AstrySankay Rao, Mumbai
111. Avik Saha, Jai Kisan Andolan, Kolkata, West Bengal
112. Ayaskant Dash, Odisha
113. B G Santhosh, Bangaluru, Karnataka
114. Balachandar, Farmer, Velappagoundanpalayam, Tirupur, Tamilnadu
115. Bandi Jaya Narayana, Tamil Nadu Agricultural Workers Union, Gummidipoondi, TN
116. Banumathy, Tamil Nadu
117. Basavesh Kori, Madhugiri, Karnataka
118. Benny Kuruvilla, Focus on the Global South-India, Kochi
119. Bharat Dogra, Delhi
120. Bhuvaneswari. K, TNIVK, Vellore, Tamil Nadu
121. Bramhaiah Naidu, Karnataka
122. Brian Fernandes, Carmona, Salcete, Goa
123. Brindha K, Chennai
124. Chandana BR, Gandhiji Sahaja Besaya Ashrama, Tumakuru, Bengaluru
125. Charles Deepak, Chillmill foods, Bangalore
126. Chethan K R, Banavara
127. Chethan Puttegowda, Hunsur, Mysore, Karnataka
128. Chhaya Datar, MAKAAM – Maharashtra, Mumbai, Maharashtra
129. Col. Sasanka Shekhar Swain, Kalyani Agro Coop Society, Alabol, Balikuda, Jagatsinghpur, Odisha
130. D S Variava, Mumbai
131. D Sukumaran, Chennai
132. Daleep Aloi, New Delhi
133. Daragaiah Mendam, Peace Rural Development Society, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh
134. David Amalanadane, Karaikal
135. Deepa R, Farmer, Kollegal, Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka
136. Deepak Bhanushali, Hajapar, Taluka Abdasa, District Kachchh, Gujarat
137. Devendra Yadav, Jaipur, Rajasthan
138. Dharam Singh, Haryana Gyan Vigyan Samiti, Hissar, Haryana
139. Dhivagar S, Peramangalam, Trichy, Tamilnadu
140. Dilip Talreja, Mumbai
141. Dinesh Kothari, Takali, Indore
142. Dinesh Manchegowda, Bengaluru
143. Dinesh S Gowda, Bengaluru
144. Dipankar Jana, Heritage Of India, Village & post Bamankhali
145. Dippak Basavaraj, Bengaluru/Karnataka
146. Divya Sriram, Chennai
147. Divyansh Gupta, Awaken India Movement, Bengaluru, Karnataka
148. Ekadashi Nandi, Freelancer, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
149. Elangovan Parimannan, Periyagoundapuram Village, Salem District, Tamilnadu
150. Elizabeth David, Ecological Designer, Bengaluru
151. Futane Vasant, SANWAD, Wardha, Maharashtra
152. Ganesan Sundararaj, Coimbatore
153. Gayathree, Chennai
154. Gerard Ribeiro, Citizen of India, Vasai
155. Giridharan Palamalai, Chennai
156. Girish G , Bengaluru
157. Girish Kumar, Davanagere
158. GJ Sukumar, Bangalore
159. Gnandish, Tiptur, Tumkur, Karnataka
160. Goverthan V, Kettavarampalayam, Kalasapakkam, Tiruvannamalai
161. Gowtham Krishnan S, Tamilnadu
162. Gulam Murtoza Mir, Retired from MECON Ranchi, Kolkata
163. Gururaja Rao K S, Nittur village, Kunigal Taluk, Tumkur district, Karnataka
164. H A Gopal Krishna, Bangalore
165. Hans Laushik, Chennai City, Tamil Nadu
166. Harikrishnan R, Virudhunagar
167. Hemalatha, Tamilnadu
168. Hemanth Kumar S, Bangalore
169. Imran Shariff, Chennai
170. Indra Sathiamurthi, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
171. Jacob Verghese, Farmer, Puthuppally, Kottayam, Kerala
172. Jagadish Patel, Sustainable Living, Rural Bangalore, Karnataka
173. Jaimala Iyer, Gandhinagar
174. Jaison J Jerome, J J J Farms Crafter, Periyakulam, Theni district, Tamil Nadu
175. Janak Singh, Dehradun
176. Jayshri, Chennai
177. Jeevith Kumar, Mysore
178. Jeyaprakash Narayanan, Bangalore
179. Joanita Figueiredo, Mumbai Maharashtra
180. K P Akilan, Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu
181. K Suresh Kanna, Organic Farming promoter, Trichy, Tamilnadu
182. K V Kumar, Bengaluru
183. K. Sridharan, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu
184. Kala Venteshwar, MFPL, Chennai, Tamilnadu
185. Kalaiyarasi P, Bangalore, Karnataka
186. Kalyanrao Kumbar, Kalaburagi, Karnataka
187. Kameswaran Ramachandran, Velachery, Chennai, Tamilnadu
188. Kamlesh Narandas Fofandi, Dhruv Aquafarm, Veraval, Gujarat
189. Kanthamani H S, Independent responsible farmer, Kodihalli kestur, Tumakuru, Karnataka
190. Karthik Anjanappa, Bengaluru
191. Karthik G, Tamil Nadu Iyarkai Velan Koottamaipu, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
192. Karthik K, Peresandra, Chikkaballapur, Karnataka
193. Karthik Pothigai, Eco Conserve Organisation, Sivagiri, Tenkasi District, Tamilnadu
194. Karthika, Sankarankovil, Tenkasi district
195. Karuppiah Kannan, Sivagiri, Tenkasi Dt, Tamil Nadu
196. Kasal Manjunath, Bangalore
197. Kathyayini Chamaraj, Bengaluru, Karnataka
198. Kaushik S S, Sanabadakoppalu, Pandavapura taluk, Mandya district, Karnataka
199. Kavitha Kannan, Chennai
200. KC Venkatesha, Natural farmer, Vijayanagar, Bangalore
201. Kiran Kumar, Bangalore
202. Kiran Kumar, Whitefield, Bangalore, Karnataka
203. Kiran Martis, Awaken India Movement, Mumbai
204. Kiran, Obalapura, Baguru, Hassan, Karnataka
205. Krishnakumar Komandur, Hamara Media, Chennai, TN
206. Kumar Hurkadli, Agriculture /Private sector, Hubli
207. Kumaravel R, Avoor, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu
208. L Mahalakshmi, Chennai
209. Lakshman Rammohan, Chennai
210. Lakshmikanth, Horuncha, Yadgir, Karnataka
211. Lalitha Sankaran, Chennai, Tamilnadu
212. Latha Baskar, Chennai, Tamilnadu
213. Latha Sekar, Kurayur, Madurai, Tamilnadu
214. Lingadevaru, Edenahalli, Karnataka
215. Linkesh VS, Madipakkam, Chennai
216. Lohit Roshan Murthy, Anthroposophic Society of India Chennai, Tamil Nadu
217. Lokesh Goud Dabbi, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
218. M Ayyadorai, Varathiyan Gramam, Ayikudy P O, Tamilnadu
219. M Sridhara Murthy, Nelamangala
220. M Suryaprakash, Chennai
221. Maalavan, Selvam Agencies, Pollachi
222. Madhavi, Bangalore
223. Madhu B Vali, Bangalore
224. Madhu Singh, Awaken India Movement, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
225. Mahadeva Swamy, Gundlupet, Karnataka
226. Majmundar P, Hiriyur, Karnataka
227. Mallikarjunaiah BS., Karnataka Rashtrasamaiti Paksha, Chickkanayakanahalli Tq, Tumkur, Karnataka
228. Malsani Rahul, Telangana
229. Malvikaa Solanki, Swayyam, Gundlupet
230. Mamatha, Kadike Trust, Udupi
231. Mangalabhavani, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
232. Mani, Thanipadi, Tiruvannamalai
233. Manish Chadda, Andaman and Nicobar Island
234. Manjunath Murthy, Korenahalli, Karnataka
235. Manjushree Tadvalkar, Know How Foundation- Inora, Pune, Maharashtra
236. Manohar Patel, Bairanayakanahalli, Tiptur, Karnataka
237. Manohar, Mysore, Karnataka
238. Manoj Kumar, Bangalore
239. Manoj M, Theni, Tamil Nadu
240. Manorama Singh, Berojgar Mahila Sewa Samiti, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh
241. Mathew Thomas, The Fifth Estate Trust, Bengaluru
242. Mipandeep Singh Oberoi, NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh
243. Mohan Raghuram, Bengaluru
244. Monesh Dedhia, Neral, Karjat, Raigad, Maharashtra
245. Monika Mehta, Pune
246. Monty Shah, Bangalore
247. Mummudi Maruthai, Kulithalai, Tamilnadu
248. Muruganantham N, Udumalpet
249. Nachiket Udupa, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, Bhim, Rajasthan
250. Naga Prashanth Simha K, Kallambella, Sira Taluk, Tumkur District, Karnataka
251. Nagaraj Jalihal, Hubballi
252. Nagarajan Krishnamurthy, Bangalore
253. Nagesh SK, Mysore, Karnataka
254. Nambirajan, Thiruvannamalai
255. Nandinidevi Pant Pratinidhi, Pune
256. Narasimhamurthy B.T, Farmer, Byatappanapalya, Gubbi taluk, Tumakuru district, Karnataka
257. Narayanan Radhakrishnan, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu
258. Naveen Kumar PR, Madhugiri, Karnataka
259. Neel Kamal, Bathinda, Punjab
260. Neetha Ramakrishnan, Chennai
261. Nevil Dadrewalla, AIM, Mumbai
262. Nikhil Pawar, Shivanahalli
263. Nikhil Raj Shetty, Mithra Organics and Naturals, Hyderabad
264. Nikita Naidu, Hyderabad, Telangana
265. Niranjani Iyer, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh
266. Nisarga M, Gandhi School of Natural Farming, Tumkur
267. Nisha Talreja, Mumbai
268. Nivetha Sivaraj, Kulithalai
269. P Srinivas, Bengaluru
270. Padam Jain, Prem Samriddhi Foundation, Bundi, Rajasthan
271. Palanisami Nachimuthu, Chennai
272. Paras Kumar Roy, Lanka, Assam
273. Parminder Kaur, Bathinda, Punjab
274. Pasya Padma, Telangana State Ryotu Sangham, Hyderabad
275. Pavan Kumar, Bangalore
276. Pawan, Kamanakere, Karnataka
277. Pervin Jehangir, Mumbai
278. Poovarasan, Coimbatore
279. Prabhu H S, Farmer, Hullamballi, Malavalli Taluk, Mandya
280. Prachi Mittal, Pune
281. Pradeep S, K Shankaranahalli, Arsikere, Hassan, Karnataka
282. Prahlad C Bhasme, Yuva Brigade, Dharwad
283. Prasad HV, Bengaluru, Karnataka
284. Prasad P, Huskur, Bengaluru
285. Prasana R, Kayarambedu village, Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu
286. Prashansa, Kengeri
287. Prashanth Kumar M, Mysore
288. Pratap Marode, Palshi Zashi, Buldana, Maharashtra
289. Prathap J, Palakkad, Kerala
290. Preetee, Pune
291. Prem Mallappa, Bengaluru
292. Pritam Mohanrao Nanvate, Bangalore, Karnataka
293. Priyadarshan, Hyderabad
294. Priyanka Kala, Mumbai
295. Puneeth S, Tiptur, Tumkur district, Karnataka
296. Purushottam Dhakar, Satanwara, Shivpuri, MP
297. Pushkar Kulkarni, Pune, Maharashtra
298. Puttanarasamma B S, Bangalore, Karnataka
299. Puttaraju D M, Bengaluru Rural
300. R.Srinivasan, Chennai
301. Rachana S, Karnataka
302. Rachit Tiwari, Khutar, Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh
303. Radhakrishnan, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu.
304. Raghavendra J, Bangalore
305. Raghuvendra Singh, New Delhi
306. Rahul Kohli, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand
307. Rajasekar, Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu
308. Rajasekaran, Pondicherry
309. Rajesh Krishnan , Farmer, Wayanad, Kerala
310. Rajesh Reddy Nandimandalam, Bengaluru
311. Rajesh Sundaran, Bangalore
312. Rajeshkumar Mummudi, Kulithalai
313. Raju Parasuram, Theni District Subash Palekar Natural Farmers Association, Tamil Nadu
314. Rakshith Pawar, Bangalore
315. Rama Subramanian, Samanvaya, Chennai
316. Ramaa Ramakrishnan, Tiruttani
317. Ramandeep Singh Mann, Delhi
318. Ramesh Chandran, Farmer, Valliyoor, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu
319. Ramesh Kumar B, Siddaiahnapur village, Gundlupet, Chamarajanagar District, Karnataka
320. Ramprasad Sana, Kakinada, AP
321. Rashmi Kumar, Bengaluru, Karnataka
322. Raspinder Singh, Sherpur Kalan, Jagraon, Ludhiana, Punjab
323. Ravi Raj, Raichur, Karnataka
324. Ravinderkumar Ahuja, Ahuja farm, Gurgaon, Haryana
325. Ravindra Kumar HG, Bangalore
326. Raviteja KM, Rastriya Kissan Sangha Karnataka, Kunabevu
327. Rekha Joshi, Pune, Maharashtra
328. Richa Audichya, Abu Road, Rajasthan
329. Ritash, RANG Foundation, Bengaluru, Karnataka
330. Rosamma Thomas, Pala Town, Kerala
331. Rushil Tamboli, Awaken India Movement, Bhavnagar, Gujarat
332. S Ashalatha, Hyderabad
333. S Natarajan, Mannmuqi Village, Thiruvandavar village, Uthiramerur taluk, Kancheepuram, TN
334. S Sampathkumar, Ayini Integrated Organic Farm, Sirupairpondy, Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu
335. S.J.Peter, Reddearpalayam, Pondicherry
336. S.Mugundan, Thiruvalluvar Farmers Club, Sagasrapadmapuram, Tamil Nadu
337. S.Saroja , Consumer activist, Chennai
338. Sachin Kumar Verma, Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi, Budhiyadih, Giridih
339. Samyuktha J, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
340. Sanaj, Gandhi School of Natural Farming, Tumkur
341. Sandip Nanasaheb Pachfule, Aurangabad
342. Sankalp Gupta, Vishva Shakti Party, Mumbai
343. Sankar A, Chennai
344. Santhosh M, Bengaluru
345. Santhoshkumar, Chennai
346. Santosh Koulagi, Melkote, Karnataka
347. Saravanan K, Doddaballapur, Karnataka
348. Saravanan, TNSF, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu
349. Saravanaperumal, Chennai
350. Satish Kumar S K, Chennai, Tamilnadu
351. Satish Kumar, Organic Farmer, Perambalur, Tamilnadu
352. Seema Agrawal, Mera Farmer, Pune
353. Selva Amala A, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore
354. Selva, Vanagam – Nammalvar Ecological Foundation, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India
355. Senthamil Selvan, Tamil Nadu Science Forum, Kalampattu, Vellore, Tamil Nadu
356. Seshadri, Chennai
357. Shahul Hameed, Alangiam Dharapuram Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu
358. Shankar A, Chennai
359. Shankar Srinivasan, Denkanikotta, Tamil Nadu
360. Shankar Venkataraman, Bhoomi Farms (Bhoomi India Agtech pvt ltd.), Kakkadasam, Tamil Nadu
361. Shanmuga Subramanian V.A., Chennai
362. Shantha Krishna, Industrialist and organic farming, Mysore, Karnataka
363. Sharmila Ribeiro, Chennai
364. Shashi Bhushan, Apis Agronomics, Delhi
365. Shashikala Satyamoorthy, Ruha Sustainable Livelihood Foundation, Solur Hobli, Magadi, Karnataka
366. Shashikumar S, JSB Pratisthana, Kollegal, Karnataka
367. Shashwat Anandrao Deshmukh, Wardha
368. Sheelu Francis, Kalanjium Women Farmers’ Association, Tamilnadu
369. Shirpaa Manoharan, Tiruvannamalai
370. Shivakumara V, Jowku, Bellary Dist, Karnataka
371. Shivam Kumar, Sangtin Kisan Majdoor Sangh Uttar Pradesh, Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh
372. Shridhar Tembadmani, Permaculture Karnataka, Belagavi
373. Shrikant Mohanta, Gulmohar Colony, Trilanga, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
374. Shrinidhi RV, Natural farmer, Bangalore, Karnataka
375. Shruthi K N, Bengaluru, Karnataka
376. Sindhu Rao, Bengaluru
377. Sivabalan Athilingam, Kovilambakkam
378. Sivaramakrishna Maddipoti, Rajamahendravaram, Andhra Pradesh
379. Smriti Phatak, Hyderabad, Telangana State
380. Soumik Banerjee, Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh
381. Soumya Dutta, Movement for Advancing Understanding of Sustainability And Mutuality (MAUSAM), Delhi NCR
382. Sowmya, Bangalore
383. Sreedevi L, Anantha, Coimbatore
384. Sreyarth Krishna, Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu
385. Sreyas M, Bangalore
386. Sri Bhaskar, Bengaluru
387. Sridevi Subramanian, Tamilnadu
388. Srikanth Gade, Hyderabad
389. Srinath Vellure, Ahobilam, TN
390. Srinivas G, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
391. Sripriya Varadheeswaran, K Pudur, Madurai, Tamilnadu
392. Subhajit Das, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Tamlauk, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal
393. Subhash C. Sharma, Mudiya Kheda, Morena MP
394. Sudeep Upadhya, Bengaluru
395. Sudha M, Bangalore
396. Sudha N, Bengaluru, Karnataka
397. Sudhakar Damodaraswamy, SS Kulam
398. Suganya T, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
399. Suhasini K, Gandhi Ashram for Natural Farming, Tumkur Bengaluru
400. Sujay, Bangalore
401. Sukanta Chakraborty, Durgapur, West Bengal
402. Sukumar J, Pullalur Village
403. Suma Josson, Film-maker, Maharashtra
404. Suman S, Gowribidanur, Karnataka
405. Sumanth A S, Nayandahalli, Bengaluru
406. Sundari Madasamy, Kalpakkam
407. Sunil H, Davangere, Karnataka
408. Sureshkumar, Chennai
409. Swathi Raj S, Mysore, Karnataka
410. Swati Yogesh Kerkar, Chembur, Mumbai, Maharashtra
411. Swethadri, Madhugiri
412. Sylvia Mary Royan, Chennai
413. T A Sridhar, Adambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
414. T Srinivasan, Farmer, Namakkal
415. Tamara Law Goswami, Environmentalist, Guwahati, Assam
416. Thamarai Selvi V, Navalpattu, Trichy, Tamilnadu
417. Thirunavukkarasu S, Chennai
418. Thiruselvan D, Lakkampatti Karattadipalayam, Gobichettipalayam, Erode, Tamilnadu
419. Tripti Khanna, NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh
420. Trupti Kedari, Mumbai
421. Ujwala Chandragiri, Arissa GrowthFarms Pvt Ltd, Telangana State
422. Uma Shunmuganathan, Tamilnadu
423. Uma Srinivasan R, ELMA, Namakkal, TN
424. Usha S, Save Our Rice Network, Trivandrum
425. Uzramma Bilgrami, Decentralised Cotton Yarn Trust, Hyderabad, Telangana
426. Vadivel, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
427. Vasavi Pochaboina, Hyderabad
428. Vasudev Chakravarti, CISLS, JNU, Kalamassery, Kerala
429. Vasudevan, Chennai
430. Veerakumar S, Navalpattu, Trichy, Tamilnadu
431. Veeraragavaprabu Ponraj, Kattiyampandhal, Uthiremerur
432. Veeravel, Navalpattu, Trichy, Tamilnadu
433. Venkataramani K, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai, Tamilnadu
434. Venkatesan V, Real Organics, Madipakkam, Chennai
435. Venkatesh HG, Tumkur, Karnataka
436. Venkatesh K, Bangalore
437. Venkatesh Kumar R, Bangalore
438. Venkatesh, Good Earth Malhar, Bangalore
439. Vibhuti Mangal, Jaipur
440. Vidya Sridharan, Bangalore
441. Vignesh, Sankarankovil, Tenkasi district
442. Vijay Kumar K, Ganjalaguntte village, Hiriyur taluka, Chitradurga dist, Karnataka
443. Vijay Panneerselvam, Tamil nadu
444. Vijay Urs, Bilugali, Biligere, Nanjangud, Karnataka
445. Vikram Sindhu, Rohtak, Haryana
446. Vinay, Kodihalli, Hiriyuru, Karnataka
447. Vinu Karthik, Gollahali, Chintamani, Karnataka
448. Vipul Shaha, Baramati, Maharashtra
449. Vrunda Shete, Indian citizen, Pune, Maharashtra
450. Yash Agrawal, Fridays For Future Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
451. Yogesh Bangadi, Bengaluru
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Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA-Kisan Swaraj)
FOOD – FARMERS – FREEDOM
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Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA-Kisan Swaraj)
FOOD – FARMERS – FREEDOM