Bikaner: The arrival of groundnuts within the mandis is superb, however the farmers are upset attributable to lack of presidency procurement and the farmers are additionally not proud of the arbitrariness of the merchants within the mandis. Annadata calls for that authorities procurement ought to begin quickly.
Bikaner district is witnessing an enormous arrival of groundnut this yr, which is an efficient signal after the declining manufacturing in the previous couple of years. However, this excellent news is proving to be incomplete for the farmers as a result of the federal government has not but began buying groundnuts at authorities value. In such a scenario, farmers will not be in a position to get the correct value for his or her produce within the markets. They are going through the arbitrariness of the contractors, attributable to which they don’t seem to be getting a good value. Even a great crop is being termed as dangerous and fewer cash is being given.
If we have a look at the figures, this time it’s anticipated that the manufacturing of groundnut shall be about 25 % greater than final time. It is noteworthy that the manufacturing of groundnut had decreased in the previous couple of years. Let us check out the figures.
From April 2021 to March 2022 – 22 lakh 102 quintals
From April 2022 to March 2023 – 18 lakh 57 thousand quintals
From April 2023 to March 2024 – 15 lakh 14 thousand quintals
From April 2024 to September 2024 – 14 lakh 6 thousand quintals
There was a bumper arrival of groundnuts until September this yr. Farmers say that they’ve produced a great crop this yr they usually have been hopeful that with the beginning of presidency procurement, they are going to get the correct value for his or her produce. But authorities procurement facilities haven’t opened but, attributable to which farmers are pressured to promote their crops to contractors. Contractors are shopping for peanuts at low costs, attributable to which farmers are incurring losses. Taking this downside critically, Khajuwala MLA, Dr. Vishwanath Meghwal has demanded from the federal government that authorities procurement of groundnuts ought to be began as quickly as potential, in order that farmers can get honest value for his or her produce. Farmers say that if authorities procurement doesn’t begin quickly, they will be unable to get honest worth for his or her arduous work. Their expectation is from the Agriculture Department and the federal government that they are going to take speedy motion on this situation and arrange authorities procurement facilities within the mandis in order that the farmers can get reduction.
In the entire matter, the market administration says that the complaints being obtained are being sorted out. The resolution to buy peanuts at authorities value is the federal government’s, hopefully this may occur quickly.
