Bhubaneswar, Thousands of sacks of paddy are lying in mandis and threshing floors in the districts of western and southern Odisha as the state government beats the farmers to buy all the remaining paddy. Targets are not given as much as they need to be. The market is about to close. The farmer is sitting with his hands on his head. 5 to 6 kg of cotton is being cut per bag. An 11-member delegation led by state president Amiya Kumar Patnaik met the governor at the Raj Bhavan today and handed over a memorandum to the Odisha Pradesh Nishan Congress.
Odisha's main crop is paddy. About 70 percent of the rice crop is completely dependent on rice. It costs about Rs 2,600 per quintal to produce rice. However, the minimum subsidy per quintal of normal paddy has been set at Rs 18 per quintal. As a result, farmers are now losing Rs 532 per quintal of paddy. The Hon'ble Prime Minister has long promised to increase the cost of agricultural production by half on the recommendation of the Swaminathan Committee. In view of this, the Odisha government unanimously proposed in the Assembly to increase the price of paddy to Rs 2,930 per quintal.
Unfortunately, so far no one was able to send in the perfect solution, which is not strange. The neighboring Chhattisgarh government is giving a bonus of Rs 500 per quintal of paddy to the farmers and the Kerala government is giving a bonus of Rs 600 per quintal to the farmers, while our state government is not giving any subsidy to the MSP to the farmers. The state of Odisha, on the other hand, produces 30 to 55 quintals of paddy per acre of irrigated areas and 18 to 22 quintals of paddy per acre of non-irrigated areas. However, the state government has bought 16 quintals of paddy per acre from the irrigated area and 13 quintals from the non-irrigated area, causing farmers to suffer a lot from selling their remaining paddy.
The state government has set a target of buying a total of 4.2 million metric tonnes of paddy in 2020 and 2020-21. At present, about 4.2 million metric tons of paddy has been procured, while the rest has not been procured. At the moment, the central government is about Rs 21 lakh more than the state government The Odisha government has been informed that it will not buy metric tonnes of rice. Do not open the mandi on time and force it. Farming due to non-purchase of rice. Now he is forced to sell his rice at Rs 1,213 per quintal. Farmers' headaches have been a major source of frustration for the government as it has not taken necessary steps to curb deficient sales. Mr. Patnaik has questioned the government as to whether the government is actually buying rice or blackmailing it at the behest of Miller.
A month later, a delegation from the Odisha Pradesh Kisan Congress, led by President Patnaik, visited the paddy markets in Buddhist, Subarnapur, Balangir, Nuapadha, Bargarh, Sambalpur, Baleshwar, Koraput and other districts. The Kishan Congress complained that the farmers present complained that the mandi was not opened on time and the paddy money was not paid to the farmers' accounts immediately. To address this, the Nikhal Congress has demanded that the state government buy all the remaining paddy from the farmers during the war and pay a Rs 500 bonus per quintal of MSP to the state government.
"If the government does not resolve the issue immediately, the Kisan Congress will launch agitation on all highways in the coming days," he said. The delegation included Subhas Rajab, Sal Fasad Patra, Yashoda Nandan Singh, Sadananda Ojha, Nityananda Panda, Ramesh Dalai, Manabhanjan Pradhan, Sushati Kumar Sethi, Gangadhar Khatua, Sujit Nayak among others.
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