What is it with these farmers? France seems to be run to and for, by, with and from farmers – some suspect that even the IBM France SA demonstrators are disk farmers – and now militant Indian farmers are threatening violent attacks on foreign computer companies in Bangalore, saying that multinational companies damage the country’s sovereignty: M D Nanjundaswamy, leader of the Raitha Sangha farmers’ association, said it would take direct action similar to its attacks on US commodities giant Cargill Inc in 1992 and 1993, in which farmers ransacked Cargill offices in Bangalore and tore down parts of a new seed plant with crowbars – We are opposed to any multinational company, Nanjundaswamy told Reuters; companies with bases in Bamgalore include IBM Corp, Hewlett-Packard Co, Texas Instruments Inc and Digital Equipment Corp; no further attacks against Cargill were planned – farmers were boycotting its seeds.
