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Forthcoming
A Liberal
Review of Independence Years of India
Jana
Samsad
Peoples Parliament
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10-12
December 1998 Amaravati, Maharashtra, India
Jana
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Sharad Joshi: Latest
Joshi
suggests action on six major issues in agriculture
Nanded,
June 21, 1998.
Sharad Joshi's letter formulating
six major issues in agriculture was discussed at the joint meeting of Shetkari
Sanghatana and Shetkari Mahila Aghadi Executives today.
The six issues
are: Monopoly purchase of cotton in the state, Sugarcane industry
and Levy on sugar, Creating alternatives for marketing agricultural produce,
Essential commodities act of 1955, Encouraging novel methods of Jowar utilization,
Farmer promoted development companies as an alternative to land acquisition
by Government.
Shetkari Sanghatana
has been focussing these issues for almost two decades.
Action
suggested
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Allow our cotton
and cotton traders in other states to cross state borders.
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Levy prices for sugar
must be uniform all over the country.
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Allow joint stock
companies of farmers and consumers to operate chain stores.
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Essential commodities
act be scraped.
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Promote non traditional
uses of Jowar.
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Promote farmer promoted
development companies as an alternative to land acquisition by Government.
In the first meeting
of the season, on the background of suicide frenzy of farmers trapped in
debts and social disgrace, the leaders of both the organizations supported
the letter but were sceptic about BJP-ShivSena ministry's response.
Wamanrao Chatap,
the newly elected president of the farmers organization aid, "These are
the issues of great concern to the farmers movement and if dealt sincerely,
will be deciding factors in the future of Maharashtra."
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Do
you have a question for
Sharad
Joshi?
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Where
do we go after capitalism and socialism?
Kailas Tawar,
Aurangabad
Sharad
Joshi Replies:
In
the history of civilizations, the early cultures sprang up in fertile lands
around the bends in big rivers, so humans could take advantage of the bounty
of nature. This was the epoch of land based
river valley civilizations.
The
second stage of civilization was marked by the rise of farmers, artisans
and soldiers when man became important as a factor of production. This
era could be identified as labour based civilizations.
When
labour is applied to land surplus appears. The surplus was, over long centuries,
wasted on feudal/medieval luxuries, temples, wars etc. till it came to
be deployed for productive purposes. Capital
- a combination of surplus and technology - became a decisive instrument
in human progress. Both, capitalism and socialism correspond to this stage.
At
present, we are entering a fourth phase where neither land nor labour nor
capital is critical. It is the combiner of them all - the entrepreneur,
the innovator , the risk-bearer - who is becoming important. So we are
not reverting to capitalism but are moving forward to the dawn of a new
era. In the absence of a more apt word, I would provisionally call it ‘Entrepreneurism’.
The word is too long, and tongue-twisting, You may have to make it shorter
and simpler. But that is the idea. ‘Entrepreneurism’
is replacing both capitalism and socialism.
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Speeches
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Articles
This part is under compilation. |
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Books
'Bharat' Speaks Out
1982, Build Documentation Centre, Bombay
Bharat Eye-view
1986, Shetkari Sanghatana Central Office, Ambethan
Answering Before God
1994, Project for Economic Education
The Women's Question
1986, Shetkari Sanghatana Central Office, Ambethan
Organisation of Peasants - Thought
and Practice
and several other books in Marathi,
translated into Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada, Telugu;
These and other publications related to new farmers movement are available
from
Shetkari Prakashan
Ambethan; Taluka:
Khed; Dist: Pune PIN 410 501 India
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About Sharad Joshi
Sharad
Joshi is the most articulate spokesman of the new farmers movement.
Agriculturist
and Peasant Leader founder of Shetkari Sanghatana - Farmers' Organisation
in Maharashtra and at national level, of the Kisan Coordination Committee
(KCC) comprising of sister organisations from 14 states - Maharashtra,
Karnataka, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya
Pradesh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala;
led a number of agitations in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat , Punjab,
Haryana etc. for remunerative prices of onions, sugar cane, tobacco, milk,
paddy, cotton, against hike in electricity tariffs, for liquidation of
rural debts and against State dumping in domestic markets.
Founder
of the largest organisation of rural women - Shetkari Mahila Aghadi - celebrated
for its work for women's property rights notably for the `Lakshmi Mukti'
programme that has conferred land titles on lakhs of rural house-wives.
Founder
and National President, Swatantra Bharat Party, 1994-96, devoted to abolition
of License-permit-quota raj and to minimal government.
Chairman,
Standing Advisory Committee on Agriculture (SAC), 1990-91 with the rank
of a Central Cabinet Minister.
Member,
National Integration Committee (NIC) since 1990.
Executive
Trustee, Krishi Yogakshema Samshodhan Nyasa (Research Foundation on agricultural
Economics).
Chairman,
Shivar Agroproducts Ltd., agroproducts processing and marketing company
promoted by farmers for setting up chain of departmental stores.
Chairman,
Bhama Constructions Ltd., a company promoted by farmers for developing
industrial estates.
Columnist
- The Times of India, The Hindu, Lokmat and severel other dailies in Marathi
etc.
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Sharad Joshi
Email:
sharad@mah.nic.in
Address: Village & Post: Ambethan;
Taluka: Khed; Dist: Pune, India. PIN 410 501;
Telephone: Chakan 02135-52354/52295; FAX:
02135-52295
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