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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana: A scheme with a difference -Milind Ghatwai

Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana: A scheme with a difference -Milind Ghatwai

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published Published on Jan 20, 2018   modified Modified on Jan 20, 2018
-The Indian Express

The MP government’s scheme paying farmers the difference between MSP and marketing prices has had a mixed impact on the ground.

Dewas (Madhya Pradesh):
“Baniya deta mandi mein, jo bachta hai woh sarkar deti hai” (what the trader gives in the market, the government gives the balance).

That’s Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana (BBY) for Arjun Singh Sendhav. The 29-year-old five-bigha (2.9 acres) farmer from Chaubara Jagir village is a beneficiary of this scheme that the BJP government in MP launched in October, four months after widespread agrarian protests over falling crop prices.

Sendhav sold 18.86 quintals of soyabean at the Sonkatch agriculture produce mandi from October 16 to 24 in four instalments, for which he received between Rs 2,500 and Rs 2,600 per quintal. Apart from what he got from traders, the young farmer was entitled to Rs 8,464 of payments under BBY, in which the state government credits the difference between the minimum support price (MSP, which is Rs 3,050 for soyabean) and the corresponding “modal rate” (which was fixed at Rs 2,580 for October, based on average prices prevailing in mandis) directly into the bank accounts of farmers.

Sendhav has so far got only Rs 2,594 out of the total price difference payable. “Until the full money is deposited, the government has not given,” he declares, while showing his bank passbook last updated on December 28. Mandi officials have told him that farmers are being paid a lot to lot basis and he, too, would soon receive the remaining amount for his entire quantity sold. “I have no reason to doubt them because my younger brother (Bhim Singh Sendhav) got the full price difference of Rs 4,644 on the nearly 10 quintals that he had sold at one go,” says Sendhav.

Standing next to the wheat crop at his field in Gandharvpuri, about 10 km from the Sonkatch mandi, Babloo Doliya is a happy man, having received Rs 3,691 under BBY. “I had no clue what the scheme was when I had registered under it in August. Normally, I sell only wheat at government purchase centers. And I thought the registration was for it,” claims this farmer, who sold his soyabean in October at rates from Rs 2,650 to Rs 2,730 per quintal.

Doliya’s happiness is, however, qualified. The sale window for availing the scheme’s benefits in soyabean closed in December. Since then, the rates in mandis have crossed the MSP of Rs 3,050. Doliya himself sold two quintals only last week for Rs 3,300. That, he believes, is proof of traders manipulating to keep prices depressed while purchases under BBY were on, and now paying above the MSP. “But I’m not ruing my decision to sell in October. I needed the cash immediately and the scheme helped me get more than what traders were paying,” he adds.

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The Indian Express, 18 January, 2018, http://indianexpress.com/article/india/bhavantar-bhugtan-yojana-a-scheme-with-a-difference-5029247/


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