Farmers of Punjab and Haryana have been taking to the streets since this morning due to the delay in the purchase of paddy crop, but now relief news is coming out for the farmers from the state government. The government has decided to buy the crop from tomorrow itself, fulfilling the demand of the farmers. Now the government has announced to buy the crop on October 3 instead of October 11. This decision was taken after meeting CM Khattar and MoS, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey.
Crop will be bought from October 3
Talking to the media, Union Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey said that procurement (of Kharif crops) will start from tomorrow in Haryana as well as Punjab. On the other hand, Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar said – Due to delay in monsoon, the central government had postponed the start of procurement of paddy and bajra from October 1 this year till October 11… But farmers demand to start procurement soon. are doing. The procurement of crops will start from tomorrow. Let us tell that since morning hundreds of farmers were trying to gherao the houses of MPs and MLAs. At the same time, the police deployed for security could not be successful in stopping the agitated farmers. Police used water cannon to stop the farmers. Crowds of farmers broke the barricades and tried to gherao the residence of CM Khattar. During the protest, the farmers raised slogans against the government.
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Farmers were angry due to delay in purchase of crops
Significantly, the United Kisan Morcha had on Friday called for protests outside the residences of MLAs in both the states to register their protest over the delay in procurement of paddy crop. The central government on Thursday postponed the procurement of kharif paddy in Punjab and Haryana till October 11 as the maturity of the crop is getting delayed. The procurement operations are carried out by the Food Corporation of India (FCI), the nodal agency of the central government, along with state agencies. Farmers were angry ever since the procurement of Kharif paddy was postponed till October 11. Most of the farmers’ grains are lying in the market and due to the rains, the grains lying in the market are getting spoiled. But now the farmer would have got a big relief from the decision of the government.
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