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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Crisis in salt sector hits 5 lakh people in Gujarat -AM Jigeesh

Crisis in salt sector hits 5 lakh people in Gujarat -AM Jigeesh

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published Published on Jun 25, 2022   modified Modified on Jun 28, 2022

-The Hindu 

While farmers suffer due to a lack of minimum support price, workers are also in distress for want of a proper system for wages and social security

MORBI/JAMNAGAR: Bharat C. Raval, president of the Indian Salt Manufacturers’ Association (ISMA), started his career as a salt inspector with the Gujarat government. After spending 19 months in the government, he was attracted towards the salt cooperatives initiated by none other than Dr. Verghese Kurien, the ‘Milkman of India’.

Kurien trained Mr. Raval at the Sabarmati Salt Farmers’ Society where he joined in April 1988 as a procurement executive. Nearly 35 years later, Mr. Raval feels that the salt industry is facing huge challenges in meeting the demand and in tackling the realisation crisis faced by salt farmers.

Initially, the society where Mr. Raval worked produced 30,000 metric tonnes of salt. It reached up to 7,00,000 metric tonnes in three years, by 1991. “We have also operated CSR activities those days by providing health infrastructure support to salt farmers. Farmers were getting 17/per tonne when we entered the sector and the the price went up in the first years to 27 per tonne and touched up to 70 by 1991. That was the beauty of the cooperative development,” Mr. Raval said.

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The Hindu, 25 June, 2022, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/crisis-in-salt-sector-hits-five-lakh-people-in-gujarat/article65565093.ece


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