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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Farmers lathicharged, 5 hurt by Ajay Parmar

Farmers lathicharged, 5 hurt by Ajay Parmar

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published Published on Jun 8, 2010   modified Modified on Jun 8, 2010


Police lathicharged farmers here on Tuesday when they went on a rampage for not getting seeds from a government outlet.

Farmers assembled in the seed market here on Tuesday morning to purchase the seeds. The went on a rampage when they were told that the Rajasthan Marketing Cooperative Society (KVSS) has run out of the stock of pearl millet seeds. They assembled at the Paota circle in the morning and blocked the road to protest.

Police made a lathicharge to disperse the farmers. This infuriated the farmers and they threw stones at the police. In the melee, three farmers and two policemen were injured.

Finally, an agreement between the farmers, private sellers and administration was reached under which the seeds were provided from private sellers at controlled rate, which was fixed at Rs 100 per kg. The 12 shops of the wholesalers, which were closed after the agitation, opened after the intervention of the administration.

After the repeated crop failures for the past two years, the fresh rain has filled the farmers of the region with hope.

Considering it to be a premonsoon rain, the farmers went to the market to get the seeds for sowing.

However, at the Rajasthan Marketing Cooperative Society outlet at Paota, they were told the seeds are out of stock.

According to the deputy director (agriculture) Ram Gopal Sharma, the spurt in demand of the seeds of HHB 67 hybrid pearl millet, suitable for desert regions, was caused by the unpredictable rain of Sunday and Monday. The government was not prepared for this. He said the KVSS had 570 kg of seeds, which was exhausted on Monday and when the farmers went to private shops, they found the prices there very high compared to that of KVSS, which is Rs 70 per kg. This infuriated the farmers and they went on a rampage.

“Since, the seeds are not available with the KVSS at present as of now but giving relief to the farmers and to ensure availability of the seeds to them, we have now bounded the private wholesalers to sale the seeds at the price not more than Rs 100 per kg.

Mean while, we will get new stock of seeds for the KVSS by tomorrow and the farmers will be able to purchase the seeds from there,” Sharma said.

A farmer from Rohet of Pali, Durga Ram Bishnoi said that this is the appropriate time that we start sowing in the fields and if we are not provided with the seeds at this time, we will get delayed and this pre monsoon rain will be of no use.


The Times of India, 9 June, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Jaipur/Farmers-lathicharged-5-hurt/articleshow/6026125.cms


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