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Soya bean farmers get raw deal at the hands of traders
Traders have formed into a syndicate to deny the soya bean farmer the government support price. Finding fault with the traders’ style of functioning, farmers in Bhainsa in Nirmal district hit streets and registered their protest against the exploitation.
Adilabad: Traders have formed into a syndicate to deny the soya bean farmer the government support price. Finding fault with the traders’ style of functioning, farmers in Bhainsa in Nirmal district hit streets and registered their protest against the exploitation.
The traders are exploiting the farmers citing lack of quality of the soya beans. They have been reportedly lifting the commodity at a price far less than the MSP.
Their modus operandi is to prepare themselves to lift the soya beans at a price of Rs 3600 a quintal, which is over and above the MSP of Rs 2775, while the farmers are yet to harvest the crop.
When the farmer brings the commodity to the market yard, they find fault with the quality and pay Rs 2400 a quintal payable to the B-grade soya bean.
Further, they brand the B-grade soya bean as poor in quality and lift the commodity at Rs 2000 a quintal. Per quintal, the farmer is being cheated to an extent of at least Rs 400.
The State government encouraged farmers to switch over to soya bean as the farmers are ruining themselves by sowing cotton.
As a result, soya bean is cultivated in 1.20 lakh acres in Adilabad region, 80,000 acres in Nirmal district and 40,000 in Asifabad district. In Mancheriyal district, farmers have cultivated the crop on a large scale in Chennur and Bellampally.
The farmers raised the crop as it is a short-duration crop. To get the Minimum support Price (MSP) of the first grade, the product should have moisture content less than 12 per cent, waste should not exceed 2 per cent and damaged seeds should not exceed 15 per cent of the quantity.
Even though the soya beans with the farmers conform to the standards, the traders are denying the MSP to the farmers.
To harvest soya beans on an acre of land, the farmers are incurring an expenditure of Rs 1500 or Rs 2000. The total input costs of soya bean per acre works out to be Rs 20,000. The per-acre yield would be five or six quintals.
Speaking to The Hans India here on Monday, a farmer belonging to Tamsi village of Adilabad mandal said that the farmer was incurring a loss of Rs 10,000 per acre because of the style of functioning of the traders.
Another farmer Chakradhar demanded the government to increase the MSP of soya bean to Rs 4000. If the same trend were to continue, the farmers would have no option except to commit suicide.
The traders have been denying the MSP to the farmers on technical grounds. The traders are denying MSP to one to three kg in a quintal.
The farmers have been demanding the state government on one hand to increase the MSP to the farmer and on the other take disciplinary action against the erring traders.
Further, the farmers have been appealing to the government for issuing orders to the traders to purchase the damp soya bean at the MSP.
