K.T. Gangadhar, leader of Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, has said successive governments were framing agricultural policies to suit the loan policies of international financial agencies.
He spoke on the second day of Shivamogga district, Kannada Sahitya Sammelana in Shivamogga, on Friday. The government had been under pressure from the international financial institutes to frame agricultural policies so that they could borrow loans.
“The big investors are now interested in investing in food production, as innovation in other sectors has reached saturation. Hence, they want all of us to become consumers, not producers. They are introducing contract farming on a large scale so that small farmers give up agriculture,” he said.
