Yavatmal: The district president of Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana, Manish Jadhav, has flayed the central government coverage”to secure only three quintal jowar per nest at minimum support cost via National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (Nafed)”.
A delegation of farmers on Monday fulfilled the SDO of Pusad Dr Vyenkat Rathod and filed a memorandum of demands addressed chief ministry Uddhav Thackeray and Union agriculture ministry Narendra Singh Tomar.
The farmers have required directions to Nafed for improving the procurement limitation to 17 quintal per acre.
This past calendar year, Nafed had procured jowar in Rs2,600 a quintal in the farmers.
“There’s a procurement center at Pusad tehsil of Yavatmal along with also the procurement has begun in Rs2,600 a quintal using the utmost limit of 3 quintals per acre.
As a matter of fact, that the farmers create 17-20 quintals per acre.
They might need to market the rest of the amount to private dealers that have shrunk the speed to Rs1,500-Rs1,600 a quintal,” said Jadhav.
Jadhav remarked that farmers aren’t given any help for crop damages made during the previous season.
“They aren’t even paid some cash from your crop insurance plan.
The farmers have been trapped in debt as well as facing severe financial crisis.
The yearly annewari of Yavatmal was at 47 paise and therefore the farmers qualify for government strategies and financial aid,” he explained.
Jadhav cautioned that farmers’ suicides could innovate, so authorities should dictate Nafed to secure the whole jowar make from farmers.