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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | As garlic prices drop, government intervention in Rajasthan, MP brings farmers little relief -Mridula Chari

As garlic prices drop, government intervention in Rajasthan, MP brings farmers little relief -Mridula Chari

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published Published on Jun 16, 2018   modified Modified on Jun 16, 2018
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Madhya Pradesh has added garlic to its price deficit payment scheme while Rajasthan has decided to procure the crop.

Last year, Bunty Rawal planted garlic on six acres of his land in Khardabad village in Rajasthan’s Kota district. He reckoned it was a good decision. High quality garlic was selling for around Rs 12,000 a quintal at the time, he said. However, he managed to make only around Rs 5,000 as the quality of his crop was not good enough.

This year, Rawal got 80 quintals of garlic from his six acres. But garlic acreage has increased across India, particularly in Kota, where the area under garlic cultivation has gone up from 29,000 hectares in 2013-2014 to a little over 1 lakh hectares in 2017-2018, according to the district’s horticulture department. Production in Madhya Pradesh, the largest garlic-producing state in India, has also increased.

Unfortunately for garlic farmers like Rawal, the maximum price for good quality garlic in April hovered at around Rs 1,200 a quintal, a sharp drop from the previous year and not even half of the average production cost of Rs 2,800 a quintal.

As distress set in in the garlic growing areas of Hadoti in Rajasthan and Malwa in Madhya Pradesh, the two state governments swung into action. On April 10, the Madhya Pradesh government announced that it would add garlic to its Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana, a scheme that promises to compensate farmers by paying the difference between production cost and market sales price.

Two weeks later, the Rajasthan government announced that the Rajasthan State Cooperative Marketing Federation, or Rajfed, would begin procuring garlic under the Centre’s Market Intervention Scheme at Rs 3,257 per quintal.

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Scroll.in, 15 June, 2018, https://scroll.in/article/882274/as-garlic-prices-drop-government-intervention-in-rajasthan-and-madhya-pradesh-brings-little-relief


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