Laxmibai Kale has been losing a portion of her harvest every year.
That’s not been due to excessive rainfall or drought or poor farming
techniques. “Our crops are destroyed,” said 60-year-old Laxmibai,
“because the/panchayat/allows animals to graze on the land. I’ve lost
count of the losses we’ve suffered.”
The five-acre plot in Mohadi village in Nashik district that Laxmibai
and her husband, Waman, have been cultivating for three decades is a
part of the/gairan/– government-controlled village commons used as
pasture land. They grow/tur//,//bajra//,//jowar/and paddy there.
“The/panchayat/members say they will file a case against us if we don’t
allow the villagers to graze their cattle on our land,” she said.
Laxmibai and other farmers from her village in Dindori/taluka/have been
fighting for their land rights since 1992. “I am the third generation
[of the family] tilling this land, but we still don’t own it,” she said.
“In 2002, we did a/satyagraha/and a/jail bharo andolan/for our land
rights.” At that time, she recalls, nearly 1,500 farmers, most of them
women, spent 17 days in the Nashik Central Jail.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/02/23/indias-farm-crisis-they-sell-our-wheat-to-us-at-thrice-the-price/
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