Meanwhile, when the government of the Center announced the release of 18 billion rupees as part of the latest installment of 2,000 rupees each into the farm household accounts of 9 million rupees under the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme, several farmers said That amount may be huge, but one should see what comes to each farmer. They asked how he would compensate them for the billions of million rupees they suffered each growing season due to the denial of the assured price for their crops.
Farmers insisted that they needed a guaranteed price for each crop rather than being treated as “beggars.”
“In our town there are small and marginal farmers with land from half an acre to 5 acres mostly. I also have half an acre of land from which I get around 10 quintals of rice as on average from an acre we get 20 quintals of rice yield here but from the local trader we only get Rs 900 to Rs 1000 per quintal and when we bring our harvest to Gulab Bagh mandi, one of the largest mandis in Bihar, where Punjab traders come and get our harvest at the rate of 1200 to 13.00 per quintal and then bring it to Punjab by trains and trucks and sell in the mandis Punjab to the max. MPS 1,888 rupees per quintal, ”said Parkash Bihari, a farmer and labor contractor. Parkash, who hails from Bihar’s Madhepura district, comes to work in the fields and mandis of Punjab during the wheat, rice and potato season together with various workers.
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