Members of State Federation of Farmers and Sugarcane Cultivators Association staged a demonstration in the city on Sunday demanding India’s exit from the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
The demonstration was held heeding the strike call issued by Rashtriya Kisan Mahasangha and is part of a nation-wide agitation being conducted by farmers in support of their demands.
Kurubur Shanthakumar, president of Sugarcane Cultivators Association, who addressed the farmers said that ever since India became a member of WTO in 1995, agriculture has suffered and farmers have been pushed to the brink.