Bengaluru: Some sugar cane farmers in North Carnataka burned their plants standing last year after they could not get skilled farming from Maharashtra for harvest tasks.
Those who make it done with available workers cannot sell their shares as sugar units reduce orders.
This is only a snapshot of the challenges facing farmers in the past 15 months.
Although the agricultural sector is mostly excluded from the strict Covid-19 limitations in 2020 and this year, new and old problems – lack of labor, clincoat demand, poor price realization, inadequate government support and government support – Farmers left in many Shaken part.
Moving production to markets inside and outside the country has been very difficult because of general disorders caused by covid locking.
Mango farmers, for example, struggle to shift stocks on time.
APMC Yard serves for limited hours, and it does not make sense for farmers in distant places to travel.
They are forced to sell their products, especially vegetables and fruits, with clay prices in the nearest market or throw them on the side of the road in anger.
Wholesale merchants, which secure supplies at a fraction of the cost, are the only benefits of the situation.
Some farmers try to adapt, turn to soybean cultivation after demanding soybean oil, but bad weather affects results.
Gangadhar Patil Kulkarni, a leader of farmers in North Kartnataka, said that the government failed to buy sufficient results at the minimum support price (MSP).
“Procurement is only 6 percent, it is also in the set of certain plants.
The government has not paid farmers for plants purchased at MSP,” he said.
The workforce misery is less severe in the old Mysore area because of reverse migration.
A large number of young people returned to villages from cities, taking jobs in the fields.
But transportation problems and low prices affected by farmers.
Cultivators of commercial crops such as ginger and tobacco face difficulties because the rainy season is slow this year.
“The market prices of these plants encourage, but poor rainfall means that the results are not too good,” said BJ Devaraju, a farmer in Bettadapura at Mysuru’s Periyapatna Taluk.
Krishnaprasad Govindaiah, Director of Sahaja Samrudha, said that many farmers finally came to meet the need to diversify plants.
The revival of Bera has offered a piece of hope in Dakshina Kannada.
According to Seetha, Director of the Joint Department of Agriculture, almost 253 hectares of land in Mangaluru Taluk have been revived through the ‘Hadi Bhoomi’ campaign, and rice cultivation has begun there.
In Udupi, the cost of agriculture has gone up.
Farmers Ajith A said that the daily wages of female workers have increased from RS 300 to Rs 350 and men from Rs 500 to RS 550.
“The cost of renting a hourly puppies rose from Rs 450 to RS 550.
Hire a small tractor and Great also becomes expensive of Rs 100 per hour.
We now spend Rs 6,000 to Rs 7,000 more for each hectare of our rice fields, “he added.
For Areca farmers in this region, it is a bitter clock: While the price of plants has touched Rs 520 per kg, the results are influenced by yellow leaf diseases and increasing the incidence of nuts.
The agri sector of silver layers despite challenges, the agricultural sector has become a bright spot for Karnataka.
Food production in this country touched a record high of 153 lakh metrics tons at 2020-21, and officials hoped the output reached 100 lakh metric tons this year.
K’taka: low market price, distribution of distress farmers
