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6.30 am : Leave for Chennai from Bangalore 3.30 pm to 4.00 pm : Press Conference in Chennai 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm : Public meeting in Chennai at C D Nayagam School, Venkatanarayana Road,... Read More

10.30 am : Kisan Swaraj Yatra in the Organic Shandy in Lalbagh (MHS Hall) (entry at Double Road gate) 2.30 pm : Informal interaction with Yatris at IAT Hall (Institution of Agricultural Technologists), Queen’s Road,... Read More

The bus got released from the RTO in Belgaum and joined the Yatris late in the night in Sirishettikoppa village. The Yatris were in high spirits from a great day in Dharwad the earlier day. More...

10.00 am – 11.30 am : Public meeting at Chitradurga 11.30 am – 1.30 pm : Live stock keeper’s meet at Samata Vidyalaya, Sira (a memorandum too shall be submitted to the state govt., regarding... Read More

Beeja mela, Haveri. Public meeting ,Harihar. Burning Company seeds, Davangere.

October 21, 2010: On the twentieth day after it set off at Sabarmati Ashram, Kisan Swaraj Yatra reached Dharwad town from Goa, to register a protest against appropriation of farmers’ varieties by seed corporations. This occasion was also used to strike a dialogue with the University, represented by the Registrar and other senior officials/scientists. Hundreds of farmers who assembled at the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS-Dharwad) said that the University should stop all toxic technologies, should stop siding with big corporations like Monsanto and Mahyco and protect farmers' varieties. More...