Today, 30th Sep' 2015, a meeting of farmer's representatives from 22 states of India, including from the North East and Laddakh, was organised by Navdanya at their farm near Dehradun under the stewardship of Dr. Vandana Shiva. It was the second day of a two day program covering issues with a focus on developing solutions for pressing problems like farmer's suicides, use of pesticides and resultant illness, loss of farmer’s rights over their seeds, lack of introduction of organic farming etc. The first program of this series was held at Meerut and the `Meerut Model’ of this series of programs, as madam called it again and again, was to be implemented all over the country.

Solutions to these problems will be reached at by direct discussions within famers groups themselves and these will be pushed into the policy structure of various government agencies in India. Other associated groups like doctors, consumer’s organisations, environmentalists, civil society etc will be part of the overall consultation process and will also be involved in pressurising the agencies into adapting better policies.