Kisan Swaraj Yatra 2010

9.30 am: Mahila Mahavidyalay, Nandanvan, Nagpur – outreach with students 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm: Rally in Wardha from Socialist Chowk to... Read More

Yatra takes a record 17 ½ hours to reach Jabalpur from Bhopal! A Press Conference, a Public Meeting and impromptu outreach in the city….. The tougher sides of the yatra start showing signs, the second tyre puncture in a week, followed by wrong (longer) route and the worst-ever roads traveled in yatra or for that matter, anywhere else, for a long past. Calling those bad roads is an understatement as the roads were just missing for most parts. It was a collection of potholes for kilometers on end. Add to these a 3-hour traffic jam in the wilderness from around 1.30 am and you have many Murphy’s Laws proven right! It also appeared that we were given wrong advice about which route to take and therefore, ended up traveling some 60-70 kms extra unnecessarily! More...

October 10th 2010, on the Global Day of Action on Climate Change, the Minister for Farmers' Welfare & Agriculture Development in Madhya Pradesh, Dr Ramakrishna Kusmariya, endorsed the messages of the Kisan Swaraj Yatra. Please click here to read his statement.

10:30 am : Meeting with farmers in Bargi 12:30 pm : Meeting with farmers in Dhuma (Seoni district) 3:30 pm : Meeting... Read More

11:30 am : Press Conference with some Yatris 2:30 pm : Public Meeting 5 pm : Impromptu outreach to the city’s consumers... Read More

Delhi/Bhopal, October 10, 2010: After reaching Bhopal on the 8th day of its 71-day outreach tour, Kisan Swaraj Yatra performed “Sharad Pawar Sadbuddhi Yagna”, praying for good sense for the Union Agriculture Minister of India, so that he may immediately address the issue of agrarian crisis in the country. Hundreds of farmers and consumers from different parts of Madhya Pradesh joined members of the Kisan Swaraj Yatra at Shahjahani Park in Bhopal today for this Yagna. More...

First about the fantastic organic lunch, sitting under amla trees in the zero-budget farm of Shri Rajendra Singh Baghel in Sonkatch, next to a highway. The Yatris were touched by the ambience, the warmth, the fantastic food (the kadhi was so good that we started downing several katoris each) – we felt that the Yatra’s message is finally complete – living close to Nature and eating non-toxic food.More...

10:00 am: Public meeting of farmers and citizens at Shah Jahani Park; 12:00 pm: Sharad Pawar Sadbuddhi Yagna! 12:30 pm: Rally from... Read More

We were welcomed with much dancing and slogan-shouting by young social work students as soon as we entered the campus of Barli Grameen Mahila Vikas Sanghatan. Many activists, social workers, senior agriculture scientists and technocrats from Indore were present in addition to more than 150 students and trainees of the host organization. Tribal girls were seen busy cooking food for us on solar-powered stoves and in solar cookers. More...

8.30 am to 11 am – visit to Shri Rajendra Singh Baghel’s natural farm. 11.30 am to 3.30 pm – Meeting with... Read More