Farmers harvest wheat of these nonetheless at protest websites, take crop to mandis

In the continuing wheat harvesting season when each Punjab farmer’s precedence is to reap crop and take it to the mandi to promote to authorities companies at assured Minimum Support Price (MSP), Sukhminder Singh is sitting on the Tikri border with none fear about harvesting the wheat on his 5 acres at his native village Jhumba in Bathinda district.
“I am focusing on dharna while my fellow farmers are taking care of my harvesting and they will also take it to the mandi too. They are giving every update of my crop on daily basis for the past two weeks,” he mentioned.
At Jhumba village, the leaders of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) Ugrahan have organized all the pieces together with labour, tractor trolley and a mix harvester for harvesting his crop, which started Monday.
“Sukhminder alongwith four more farmers of our village is currently sitting on dharna in Delhi. We went to their families recently and asked them to not to worry about harvesting. They also gave us a free hand. We are getting the crops of all five harvested one by one. We will also take it to the mandi for selling,” mentioned BKU Ugrahan chief Jagsir, including, “We, a group of 10-12 farmers have arranged this harvesting. We will also do the labour work if required during harvesting.”
He additional mentioned: “At some places, the wheat crop got flattened due to wind storm recently and such crop could not be carried in the harvester. So here we do labour work, cut flattened crop and put it in the harvester to get the grain. The rent of the harvester and tractor trolley used to carry his crop to mandi will be borne by the farmer while the rest of the services like loading and cutting we are providing like a fraternity member.”
The crop of farmer Amrik Singh of Talwandi Napana village in Ferozepur district can also be being harvested by an activist of Punjab Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (PKMSC), Baljinder Singh. Amrik has been on the protest website on Delhi border for the previous over two weeks.
Farmer Gurdev Singh of Fatehgarh Panjoor village in Moga too has requested PKMSC to handle the harvesting of his crop as he was busy in Delhi dharna.
“When we had come to participate in this protest from Punjab our crops were just getting germinated and today they were harvested and sold in mandis and we are still fighting for our rights,” mentioned Gurdev Singh, including that he’s joyful this has created numerous belief amongst farmers at village degree.
Farmer Khayala Singh has additionally advised BKU chief to maintain his crop. “Some of our fellow farmers have taken this responsibility of harvesting and they have returned to take care of it while we are protesting here as all of us cannot leave the protest at the same time, so we have been doing it in turns,” he mentioned.

“We are getting crop of 5-10 farmers harvested every day. We are also taking the crop to the mandis,” mentioned Baljinder Singh, including that this technique has been serving to them hold the protest robust as nicely by enhancing the sensation of brotherhood amongst farmers.
Activists of BKU Dakaunda are additionally managing the harvesting of some farmers sitting on the border. Even in some villages the sarpanches have additionally supplied their providers to the protesting farmers.

Sarpanch Kulwinder Singh of Bolina village in Jalandhar mentioned: “Whenever any help is sought from us, we will be at their disposal.”
Sukhdev Singh Kokrikalan, basic secretary, BKU Ugrahan, mentioned: “Our organisation has already decided that the farmers who are sitting in Delhi, their crop will be harvested by the activists of our organisation and in every village of 16 districts where we have units. Our activists as well as farm labourers are getting it done. We have also decided to take care of other important works of our protesting farmers.”