Raipur, December 30, 2011
The
Congress has asked the government to stop ignoring farmers and urged it to provide
them Rs 270 paddy bonus as well as quality seeds and fertilisers through
societies at reasonable rates. “The farmers are committing suicide. Many have
stopped farming and have started other works for livelihood. Still the
government is apathetic towards them,” said former PCC president Dhanendra
Sahu, PCC vice presidents Kawasi Lakhma, Pradeep Choubey and party’s chief
spokesperson Shailesh Nitin Trivedi jointly on Friday.
“The government is
anti-farmer. Hence it has held their paddy bonus amounting Rs 2287 crore for the
past couple of years. If it will release the bonus amount, the farmers will be
able to clear their loans. Besides, their financial problems will also be
solved to a large extent,” the Congmen said.
They further pointed
that production cost of crops too had increased in the recent past due to
unavailability of fertilisers. “The societies do not have sufficient stock of
fertilisers. Therefore, the farmers are bound to buy fertilisers from black
marketeers at high rates,” they said.
“Similarly, the Seeds
Development Corporation does not have adequate stock of seeds. The available
types of seeds in the corporation are of poor quality as either they do no
sprout or the plants die after sometime,” the Congmen said.
“The farmers are even
getting duplicate pesticides which are damaging their crops. Siyaram Yadav from
village Girola (Abhanpur block) committed suicide because his crops destroyed
when he used pesticides which were of inferior quality and eventually he failed
to clear his debts,” they said.
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