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In Pics: Maharashtra Farmers' end long protest march in Mumbai 1 6 In Pics: Maharashtra Farmers' end long protest march in Mumbai Farmers of All Indian Kisan Sabha (AIKS) march from Nashik to Mumbai to gherao Vidhan Bhawan on March 12, demanding a loan waiver, in Mumbai. In Pics: Maharashtra Farmers' end long protest march in Mumbai A woman listens to speakers at the site of the protest rally in Azad Maidan. Photo by SL Shanth Kumar In Pics: Maharashtra Farmers' end long protest march in Mumbai The farmers, wearing red caps and carrying red flags, arrived in Mumbai Azad Maidan on March 12, 2018. Thousands of Indian farmers protested in Mumbai on March 12 after walking more than a hundred kilometres to demand better crop prices and land rights. Photo by SL Shanth Kumar / BCCL In Pics: Maharashtra Farmers' end long protest march in Mumbai Farmers take rest at the site of a protest rally in Mumbai Azad Maidan. Photo by SL Shanth Kumar In Pics: Maharashtra Farmers' end long protest march in Mumbai A farmer protects from sun as he listen to speakers at the site of a protest rally in Mumbai Azad Maidan. Photo by SL Shanth Kumar In Pics: Maharashtra Farmers' end long protest march in Mumbai Lakshman Bhasre from Trimbakeshwar deployed a tiny solar panel on his head to charge his phone and also provided plug points to fellow farmers in the long march. Photo source: VivashwanSingh / Twitter

Farmers’ unions will hold a state-wide hunger strike on March 19, and ‘jail bharo’ agitation on April 30.The state government might have managed to placate the protesting farmers for now, but farmers’ unions are already planning their next move. The farmers’ steering committee, an umbrella organisation of 35 farmers’ unions, will hold a day-long ‘anna satyagraha’ or hunger strike on March 19. “Thehas failed to stop farmers’ suicides. The hunger strike is our way of displaying solidarity with the families of thousands ofwho have died,” said Raghunath Patil, chief of theThe date chosen for the hunger strike is significant, said Amar Habib of. According to Habib, the state recorded its first farmer’s suicide on March 19, 1986. “A farmer named Sahebrao Karpe from Yavatmal was the first to commit suicide over two decades ago,” said Habib. Sushma Morale of Beed’s Shetakari Sangharsh Samiti said that the hunger strike will be followed by a state-wide ‘jail bharo andolan’ on April 30. “We will also demand complete loan waiver and pension for farmers,” said Morale.Other unions that are part of the farmer’s steering committee include Kishor Dhamale’s Satyashodhak Shetakari Sanghatana, Ganesh Jagtap’s, Peasants and Workers Party of India’s, and Baba Adhav’s. The steering committee had successfully called for 11-days farmers’ strike last year.