Maharashtra: BJP ministers face farmers’ wrath over plunging onion, cotton costs

Express News Service

MUMBAI: BJP ministers in Maharashtra face the wrath of the farmers over free-falling costs of onion and cotton.

This comes whilst a group of Tamil Nadu farmers, led by its chief PR Pandian, started their march in the direction of the Parliament from Kanniyakumari, just a few days in the past, urging the Prime Minister to implement his assurances throughout farmers’ protest in Delhi. 

On Sunday, offended farmers threw onions on the car of Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. Union minister for state and BJP Lok Sabha MP Bharati Pawar and state agriculture minister Abdul Sattar too confronted the ire of the farmers.

The unrest amongst onion and cotton growers within the state has been escalating over plunging costs and the failure of the Centre to increase a serving to hand to the farmers in disaster. 

Angry farmers could possibly be seen surrounding Bharati Pawar as seen in a video that went viral on social media even because the minister tried to assuage their tempers by stating that the Centre has been shopping for onion by NAFED (National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India) and ensured that there is no such thing as a ban on the export of onion as effectively. She stated that onion costs within the worldwide market had been down and therefore the autumn within the costs within the home market. Further, the provision of onion available in the market is kind of excessive.

However, within the video, the farmers could possibly be seen attributing the fallacious export-import insurance policies of the Centre for his or her plight. The offended farmers argued that the Centre retains altering its insurance policies consistently and the farmers are struggling due to this.

“The Centre should compensate us by buying our onions at the international market rate and also extend all possible help to us,” the farmers insisted.

Meanwhile, Devendra Fadnavis confronted the ire of the farmers in Amaravati the place the latter threw onions at his car earlier than the police swung into motion and detained the protesters.

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Maharashtra agriculture minister Abdul Sattar additionally confronted the ire of the farmers on the agricultural exhibition in Amaravati. The farmers knowledgeable him that the worth of onion has gone down beneath the worth of outdated newspapers. Farmers argued that final yr they offered a quintal of cotton for s 14,000 however presently they get solely Rs 8,000 per quintal.

“We will not be capable of get better the enter value as effectively. If the federal government fail to assist us there is no such thing as a choice left for us however to commit suicide,” the farmers advised him. 

As reported by The New Indian Express, the representatives of the Tamil Nadu All Farmers Organization Coordination  Committee, set out their Delhi march from Kanniyakumari late final week. They would journey by way of Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Vijayawada,  Hyderabad, Raipur, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Patna, Varanasi, Jaipur and Chandigarh, earlier than reaching New Delhi on March 20. The farmers are in search of, amongst different calls for, a everlasting legislation for fixing worthwhile minimal assist worth for agricultural produce yearly.

MUMBAI: BJP ministers in Maharashtra face the wrath of the farmers over free-falling costs of onion and cotton.

This comes whilst a group of Tamil Nadu farmers, led by its chief PR Pandian, started their march in the direction of the Parliament from Kanniyakumari, just a few days in the past, urging the Prime Minister to implement his assurances throughout farmers’ protest in Delhi. 

On Sunday, offended farmers threw onions on the car of Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. Union minister for state and BJP Lok Sabha MP Bharati Pawar and state agriculture minister Abdul Sattar too confronted the ire of the farmers.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

The unrest amongst onion and cotton growers within the state has been escalating over plunging costs and the failure of the Centre to increase a serving to hand to the farmers in disaster. 

Angry farmers could possibly be seen surrounding Bharati Pawar as seen in a video that went viral on social media even because the minister tried to assuage their tempers by stating that the Centre has been shopping for onion by NAFED (National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India) and ensured that there is no such thing as a ban on the export of onion as effectively. She stated that onion costs within the worldwide market had been down and therefore the autumn within the costs within the home market. Further, the provision of onion available in the market is kind of excessive.

However, within the video, the farmers could possibly be seen attributing the fallacious export-import insurance policies of the Centre for his or her plight. The offended farmers argued that the Centre retains altering its insurance policies consistently and the farmers are struggling due to this.

“The Centre should compensate us by buying our onions at the international market rate and also extend all possible help to us,” the farmers insisted.

Meanwhile, Devendra Fadnavis confronted the ire of the farmers in Amaravati the place the latter threw onions at his car earlier than the police swung into motion and detained the protesters.

ALSO READ | We’re with onion farmers, says CM Eknath Shinde in Maharashtra meeting

Maharashtra agriculture minister Abdul Sattar additionally confronted the ire of the farmers on the agricultural exhibition in Amaravati. The farmers knowledgeable him that the worth of onion has gone down beneath the worth of outdated newspapers. Farmers argued that final yr they offered a quintal of cotton for s 14,000 however presently they get solely Rs 8,000 per quintal.

“We will not be capable of get better the enter value as effectively. If the federal government fail to assist us there is no such thing as a choice left for us however to commit suicide,” the farmers advised him. 

As reported by The New Indian Express, the representatives of the Tamil Nadu All Farmers Organization Coordination  Committee, set out their Delhi march from Kanniyakumari late final week. They would journey by way of Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Vijayawada,  Hyderabad, Raipur, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Patna, Varanasi, Jaipur and Chandigarh, earlier than reaching New Delhi on March 20. The farmers are in search of, amongst different calls for, a everlasting legislation for fixing worthwhile minimal assist worth for agricultural produce yearly.