Karnataka Agriculture: What is left in the hands of the farmer after hard work in the fields and selling the produce in the market is a big issue. Amidst the target of doubling the income of the farmer, even today many farmers are unable to get the right price for their produce. Even without wanting it, the cost of farming increases so much that the farmer does not feel anything. A similar case has also come to the fore from Karnataka. Here a farmer from Gadag district traveled 415 km for not getting the right price for onions. Decided to go to Bangalore mandi, but when he sold 205 kg of onions in Bangalore’s Yeshwanthpur mandi, he got only Rs 8.36 after cutting them. Frustrated with this incident, the farmer put the receipt of onion sale on social media, which is now becoming increasingly viral.
Expenditure more than the price of onion
If media reports are to be believed, Pavadeppa Hallikeri of Gadag district went to sell onions at Yeshvantpur mandi in Bangalore, then the wholesaler here bought onions at Rs 200 per quintal. After this, the wholesaler made a receipt in the name of the farmer, in which there was a freight fee of Rs 377 and onion lifting fee of Rs 24. After deducting the cost of all these, in the end only 8 rupees 36 paise came in the hands of the farmer. Despite traveling hundreds of kilometers, the farmer felt disappointed. After this, the farmer not only shared the receipt of onion sale on social media, but also asked other farmers to refrain from selling onion crop in the mandis of Karnataka.
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Gadag farmer travels 415 km to Bengaluru to sell onions, gets Rs 8.36 for 205 kg! pic.twitter.com/NmmdQhAJhv
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Onion prices fell more than expected
Narrating his incident, Pavadeppa Hallikeri said that farmers from Pune and Maharashtra also come to Bangalore’s Yeshwanthpur mandi to sell their onion produce. If the crop of these farmers is very good, then they get good prices, but no one had expected that suddenly the prices of onions would come down so much. The farmer also said that he had shared the post of the receipt on social media to alert the farmers, as the farmers of Gadag and North Karnataka were not getting the right price for onions. I myself spent Rs 25,000 to take the onion produce to the market.
farmers eager to protest
Let us tell you that in many areas of Karnataka, the farmers also had to face the vagaries of the weather, which caused a direct loss to the produce and the farmer. In Gadag district also, due to heavy rains, the produce of many farmers was ruined, and the size of onion also remained small, due to which the farmers did not get the right price in the market. On top of that, the farmers are not getting anything due to the increase in the cost of farming and transportation. If media reports are to be believed, these days the farmers of North Karnataka have come under compulsion and have decided to request the government to declare the minimum support price of onions. The situation is such that protests against the government may start in December.
Disclaimer: Some of the information given in the news is based on media reports. Farmer brothers, before implementing any suggestion, do consult the concerned expert.
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