Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 3: DDC Member Suchetgarh Taranjit Singh Tony on Monday appealed to the Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Divisional Commissioner Dr Raghav Langer to establish separate Rabi crop procurement centres for the border belt of RS Pura to redress the problems bing faced by the farmer community.
In a statement issued here, DDC Member said that the farming community of the border belt including villages Sai, Suchetgarh, Baspur Bangla and several other falling in the RS Pura area has to surrender before private millers as there is no Government procurement centre in the vicinity and to sell the produce on Minimum Support Price (MSP) the farmers have to travel to distant places which escalates the expenditure due to cost of journey. He said to avoid the carriage expenditure the farmers opt to have trade-off and sell their produce to middle-men or the millers which results in heavy losses.
He said non-availability of procurement centres is a big issue as farmers feel fleeced by those who buy their yield by giving much cheaper rates as compared to the MSP fixed by the Government.
Tony said that there is no facility of crop procurement in aforesaid villages and the farmers are compelled to sell their produce to millers which offer very less price.
“There is dire need to install more procurement centres near the border villages so that farmers get the facilities at their door steps”, the DDC member said and demanded robust system to check on exploitation of farmers by setting up a foolproof mechanism.
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