Chickpea lentil Farmers have lost Rs 140 crore in the first two weeks of March, as market prices are lower than the announced minimum support price (MSP), according to the Jai Kisan Andolan, a group that co-ordinated farm protests, Moran The platform is related to unions.
If the same trend continues without government intervention, then Chickpea lentil This year, Jai Kisan Andolan (JKA) founder Yogendra Yadav while addressing a press conference on Thursday said that the farmers will be “looted” of oot ₹ 20 crore this year.
Using data from the government’s Agmarknet website, which records prices in state mandis across the country, a group of farmers showed that Chickpea lentil Or Bengal gram is trading below the MSP rate of 100 5,100 per quintal to be 400 per quintal. In Gujarat, the Staple Pulse was being sold at more than MS 600 below the MSP. Multiplying the shortfall with the 3.2 million quintal pulses that reached the market in the first half of March, JKA claimed that the total loss to farmers so far was ₹ 140 crore.
Mr Yadav said such data exposed the government’s repeated claims that “the MSP was, is and will remain”. In reality, farmers were forced to sell below MSP and suffer huge losses every year.
Convenor of Jai Kisan Andolan Avik Saha said that the group would calculate the loss of various crops daily to the farmers to highlight the false position of the claims of the government.
For more than three months, farm unions have been encamped on the outskirts of Delhi under the banner of Samyukta Kisan Morcha, repealing three farm reform laws and providing legal guarantees that all crops will be sold at MSP prices .
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