Farmers take out motorcycle rally In AMALAPURAM
| Author: Bharatiya Kisan Sangh Date: 03 Dec 2011 19:53:55 |
AMALAPURAM: 7 June 2011: Farmers under the aegis of Bharatiya Kisan Sangh took out a motorcycle rally in 25 villages of Konaseema on Monday to create awareness among the farmers about ‘Paddy crop holiday,’ which the farmers declared voluntarily for the ensuring kharif season. In the wake of absence of Minimum Support Price for paddy in the rabi season, the farmers decided to observe ‘Paddy crop holiday’ for the kharif season and took out a huge rally in the town last week. The four-day motorcycle rally was aiming at visiting all the villages and interacting with the farmers at their doorstep and explaining them in detail about the decision and its possible outcome. Amalapuram is a town in East Godavari district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
The rally began at Bendamurlanka village of Allavaram mandal and proceeded towards Gotitippa, Allavaram, B. Ravulapalem, Kunavaram, Uppalaguptam before culminating at Katrenikona. Farmers joined the rally in each and every village and in all over 1,000 farmers participated in the rally. Secretary of the BKS’s State unit Mutyala Jameel, and district president D. Nageswara Rao were present. The rally will be taken up from I. Polavaram on Tuesday.
