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Bangalore/Delhi, October 24, 2010: The pan-Indian bus tour by Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) called Kisan Swaraj Yatra, for the cause of “Food, Farmers & Freedom”, reached Bangalore today after spending three days in Karnataka, reaching out to thousands of citizens. Joining the Organic Market in Lalbagh this morning, the Yatra urged urban consumers in Karnataka to support the cause of ecological farming, both to bring our anna daatas out of their crisis and also to ensure that safe food is available for all. More...

“Livestock rearers issues raised in Sira: these issues are an integral part of Kisan Swaraj, emphasise speakers” “Tallampella Panchayat declares itself GM-Free” On this day, everyone got ready by 8 am, with a spring in their feet. They were greatly energized by the response that the Yatra was generating in Karnataka. More...

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... Read More

10.30 am : Kisan Swaraj Yatra in the Organic Shandy in Lalbagh (MHS Hall) (entry at Double Road gate) 2.30 pm :... 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... 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...

After two exhausting days due to the bus fiasco, the tired but determined Yatris bounced back with the same energy and eagerness that they have had over the past 20 days as the second day in Goa began. More...

It was as though someone was testing us for our grit and commitment and the ability to carry on with work despite hardships. Yesterday afternoon, after we set off from Tara, we were stranded first with two flat tyres. It took hours to get the puncture made given that there was no power supply in the small place that we stopped at. However, it didn’t end there. In pouring rain, we managed to have some dinner at around 10.30 pm somewhere along the way. Around 2.30 am, however, the bus stopped and refused to budge. Even though some of us kept warning the driver and cleaner that we can smell diesel fumes, they ignored us and kept driving. It turned out that there was diesel leaking from some nozzle that got broken at the engine. Stranded, again, in the middle of nowhere. The patience of people in the bus was wearing very thin, not to mention extreme exhaustion at lack of sleep in the nights and much-running-around during the day. What does one do? More...