Bhubaneswar: BJP on Thursday promised to end a controversial centralized token system for the procurement of rice and streamline purchases by opening a market yard at the Panchayat level under the leadership of Sarpanchs, if the party was chosen to rule in the election of Panchayat in the country.
Manifesto 22 points for three-level rural polls, BJP tries to win farmers.
BJP President Samir Mohanty said his party would fight for a transparent rice procurement system by ending the Nexus of Miller and intermediaries.
“The system to send tokens to farmers from Bhubaneswar delay the procurement process.
This will stop,” he added.
Various farmer organizations have protested the current system, where farmers can sell rice only when they receive centralized tokens produced at the state level and on the previous date and time given to them.
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Manifesto BJP said the party would work to ensure that farmers can sell all their harvest, by eliminating the upper limit for each depending on the size of their land retaining, with their minimum support price.
BJP also promised to ensure central cash incentives under the scheme of PM Kisan reached farmers.
The party said that even though the Union Government had provided Rs 6,000 per year in three installments, the Lion part of the money would be a middleman because of loyalty to the powerful party in Odisha and not to the real farmers.