Tiruchi, in Tamil Nadu state will host the 7th All India Confernce of All India Agricultural Workers union. The conference will be start on July 17th and will conclude on 19th. As part of this conference hectic campaign is being conducted throughout Tamil Nadu. Village assemblies, Public meetings and seminars are being conducted.AIAWU All India Vice President Com. Hannan Mullah is leading the campaign at the moment.
"The effects of agrarian crisis are most severe on agricultural labourers and have to be counted with immediate effect. Not only do they not have land today; even the land for housesite is being diverted to other uses. Also, there is a decline in the number of workdays available in agriculture, which is their only means of livelihood. In 1991 they could get 100 days of work a year on a farm; today they get work for only 57 days or less while their number has grown from 7.4 crore to 10.7 crores in the same period. They do not have alternative employment. As a result, rural unemployment has grown from 5.3 to 9.3 per cent. Many were forced to migrate; 27.3 per cent of the migrants were cultivators and 28.2 per cent were agricultural labour, according to the government’s own figures. This has led to the wages of agricultural workers either remaining stagnant or falling over the last decade or so. Although the AIAWU has taken up wage struggle in most states consistently, notably in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Tripura and Punjab, we should not lose sight of their need in the coming days" he said while speaking at a meeting in Didugal organised as part of the campaing. " The conference will chart out the struggles against the anti-farmers policy of the UPA Government" he added
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