Senior officers should supervise crop procurement – Kumari Selja
Farmers upset due to the failure of crop procurement even after five days
Chandigarh – President,
Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC), Kumari Selja said that farmers were bringing rabi crops to the market for sale. The state government also announced procurement from April 1, but even after five days, the procurement had not started smoothly. To save the farmers from trouble, the state government should depute district wise senior IAS officers, so that procurement process can be carried out properly under their supervision, said Kumari Selja.
In a statement issued to the media, Kumari Selja said that like the previous years, Rabi crop was reaching the mandis for sale. Like every year, the state government also announced to start procurement from April 1. Despite this, the preparations related to procurement in the mandis could not be finalized. This was the reason that every day farmers were being forced to lock one or the other mandis. She said that there was lack of cleanliness in some mandis and some had no arrangement of drinking water. Similarly, gunny bags were not reaching in some mandis and there was problem with gate pass in some mandis. For the last five days, such complaints were being received from Yamunnagar, Kurukshetra, Karnal, Ambala and Kaithal districts. This shows that the BJP-JJP alliance government did not take timely necessary steps to facilitate the farmers.
Kumari Selja said that the record of crops which have been sown in any crop season in the state was prepared in three ways. It had been made mandatory for the farmers to provide information on the portal, while the Agriculture Department and Patwari prepare reports at their respective levels. In such a situation, despite having a three-tier record, it was the failure of the state government to not prepare for the purchase even after the data of the possible arrival of the crop in the mandis.
Kumari Selja said that due to the opposition to the three black agricultural laws, the state government was working consistently to harass the farmers. Sometimes manure, sometimes seeds, sometimes compensation for damaged crop and sometimes procurement, the state government keeps on looking for a way to bother the farmers.
