New Delhi, November 4th 2019: At a time when the Indian economy is in the doldrums, India should not move forward on the RCEP at any cost, warned farm rights advocacy group Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA). “The development in Thailand today, where other countries decided to go ahead while India did not get on [...]

———- Forwarded message ——— From: Kisan Swaraj <asha.kisanswaraj@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 11:51 AM Subject: ASHA’s Feedback on FSSAI’s draft guidelines on “Working with the Private Sector” To: <ed-office@fssai.gov.in> Cc: <ceo@fssai.gov.in>, <chairperson@fssai.gov.in>, <secyhfw@nic.in>, <hfwminister@gov.in> To:                                                                                                 25th October 2019 The Executive Director (Compliance Strategy) Food Safety & Standards Authority of India, Food and Drug Administration [...]

NOTE: THIS LETTER WAS SENT BY ASHA TO GOI BEFORE SEEDS BILL 2019 WAS PUT OUT ON 28/10/2019 BY THE GOVERNMENT FOR PUBLIC FEEDBACK. ASHA WOULD RESPOND TO THE SEEDS BILL 2019 VERSION TOO. —– Forwarded message —– From: Kavitha Kuruganti <kavitha_kuruganti@yahoo.com> To: ns.tomar@sansad.nic.in <ns.tomar@sansad.nic.in>; kotharin@nic.in <kotharin@nic.in> Cc: secy-agri@gov.in <secy-agri@gov.in>; secy-agri@nic.in <secy-agri@nic.in>; jsseeds-agri@nic.in <jsseeds-agri@nic.in>; ashwani.hub@nic.in <ashwani.hub@nic.in> Sent: Sunday, 6 [...]

ASHA’S RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE HIGH POWERED COMMITTEE OF CHIEF MINISTERS ON TRANSFORMATION OF INDIAN AGRICULTURE Submitted: September 4, 2019        PDF Link   Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (also known as ASHA-Kisan Swaraj Network) is a large national network of organisations and individuals, working to promote sustainable and dignified farm livelihoods in India. [...]

—– Forwarded message —– From: Kavitha Kuruganti <kavitha_kuruganti@yahoo.com> To: cibsecy@nic.in <cibsecy@nic.in> Cc: vivek.narayan14@nic.in <vivek.narayan14@nic.in>; viveknarayan77@gmail.com <viveknarayan77@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, 20 August 2019, 10:00:37 GMT+5:30 Subject: COMMENTS ON THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABELLING OF PESTICIDES AS PER TOXICITY COMMENTS ON THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABELLING OF PESTICIDES AS PER TOXICITY To: The Secretary, Central Insecticides Board, Directorate of [...]

Organic Farming, Natural Farming and other approaches to agro-ecology Welcome;  Agro-ecological principles at work are the same in various models; Diversity of approaches/practices/techniques essential to suit local conditions; Transgenics and other gene technologies patently antithetical to agro-ecology;  Agro-Ecology is based on nature’s principles and is beyond personalities; Adivasi agriculture has long pioneered natural farming and [...]

From: Kavitha Kuruganti <kavitha_kuruganti@yahoo.com> To: am@krishi.nic.in <am@krishi.nic.in>; ns.tomar@sansad.nic.in <ns.tomar@sansad.nic.in>; kotharin@nic.in <kotharin@nic.in> Cc: neeraja.adidam@nic.in <neeraja.adidam@nic.in>; alka.b87@gov.in <alka.b87@gov.in> Sent: Monday, 29 July 2019, 12:33:22 GMT+5:30 Subject: Reg. the need to establish a set and clear definition of NATURAL FARMING To:                                                                                                                                          July 29th 2019   Shri. Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Government of India.   Dear Sir, Sub: On the need for having a set and clear definition [...]

MAJOR FARMER UNIONS OF INDIA RESOLVE COLLECTIVELY TO UPHOLD FARMERS’ SEED RIGHTS   New Delhi, July 13th 2019: Farmers’ movements have decided to put up a collective fight to ensure that farmers’ seed freedoms in India are not violated in any way, in a People’s Conference held here today. Organised by Alliance for Sustainable & [...]

PEOPLE’S CONFERENCE ON FARMERS’ SEED RIGHTS Saturday, July 13th 2019 India International Centre, Conference Room II, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi Programme Schedule   Timing Topic Speaker/Facilitator 10.00am to 10.30am Registration   10.30am to 10.40am Welcome/Background/Introduction to the Conference Ms Kavitha Kuruganti, Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) 10.40am to 10.55am Quick round of [...]

“PEPSICO INDIA & OTHER CORPORATIONS SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE AND ACCEPT THAT FARMERS’ RIGHTS CANNOT BE DENIED OR CHALLENGED – FARMERS SEED FREEDOMS IN INDIA ARE THE LAW OF THE LAND AND THIS NEEDS TO BE RESPECTED” Activists point out that this is after all an undertaking given by all applicants to PPV&FR Authority for varietal registration [...]