Raipur. Farmers of United Kisan Morcha and Bharatiya Kisan Union Chhattisgarh will participate in the Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat organized in Delhi on March 14. For this, he will leave by Durg-Udhampur train on the morning of 13th March. This information was given by Tejram Vidrohi, General Secretary of Bharatiya Kisan Union Chhattisgarh.
Tejram Vidrohi told that on the nationwide call of United Kisan Morcha Delhi, a large number of workers of Bharatiya Kisan Union from Chhattisgarh will be present in the Kisan Mahapanchayat to be organized on March 14 at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi to give legal guarantee of MSP and to withdraw the four labor codes. Will participate in. On the confusion being spread by the Central Government on the ongoing movement so that all the farmers can get the guarantee of minimum support price for all the crops, the farmers said that the Government of India provides MSP for only 23 crops and purchases are made at this price. Does not guarantee. There are some markets for wheat and paddy in Punjab, Haryana, MP and Uttar Pradesh. There would have been some government procurement of paddy in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and other states.
He said that cotton is procured in various ways by the Cotton Authority of India. The price of sugarcane is assured by selling it to the mills through government weighing centres. NAFED buys some pulses. Procurement is not uniform, for example, the government buys 70% of its wheat only from Punjab and MP, which accounts for 70% of Punjab's production and 35% of MP's production, but only 15% of Uttar Pradesh's production. Is purchased from.
Tejram Vidrohi said that the result was that the MSP of paddy, which was Rs 2183 per quintal in 2023, was purchased by traders in Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh at a price of Rs 1200 per quintal, because there is no government procurement there. Similarly, the MSP of wheat for 2023-24 was Rs 2125 and was purchased at Rs 1800 per quintal in many areas. Apart from this, 2 years ago the MSP of maize was Rs 1900 per quintal and it was sold at Rs 1100 per quintal. This fall in price occurs because there is no guarantee of purchase. MSP sets the basic rate in the market and middlemen associated with corporate trading companies rule the market, because farmers do not have the capacity to store and store their produce, due to which they have to sell their produce at throwaway prices.
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