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Marie Antoinette may or may not have deadpanned &amp;ldquo;let them eat cake&amp;rdquo; but the Bengal government could have tried saying &amp;ldquo;let them eat potato&amp;rdquo; in these times of price rise.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But out went that opportunity &amp;mdash; along with 7,000 bags or 4,200 tonnes of potatoes at Panagarh in Burdwan.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In terms of cash, potato stocks valued at Rs 50 lakh rotted on the open ground today because of a dispute between a cold storage facility and the state government.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In terms of impact on the ground, hordes of people armed with buckets descended on the field beside the Delhi-Calcutta National Highway 2 where the vegetables were dumped.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As the people &amp;mdash; mostly women who bear the brunt of putting food on the table &amp;mdash; scurried among the piles of nylon bags to scoop up the jyoti variety of potatoes that sell at Rs 9-10 a kg, cattle, too, ambled in for a windfall meal.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In a country with an airline that has placed the largest order for planes in &amp;ldquo;aviation history&amp;rdquo;, cows, goats and humans scurried to pick up what the government apparently refused to.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The private cold storage has accused state-run co-operatives of failing to clear the stocks by November 30 last year &amp;mdash; the deadline set by an agreement. The co-operatives have also been accused of not clearing dues of Rs 38 lakh. The cold storage had charged Rs 4 lakh per month as rent for storing 4,200 tonnes of potato since the middle of March last year.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The stocks had piled up because of market intervention by the government to help farmers and prop up prices. The government had purchased the potato through its co-operatives &amp;mdash; Benfed and Confed &amp;mdash; directly from the farmers in March when a bumper produce had triggered distress sales.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Last year had seen a bumper crop of 95 lakh tonnes of potato against an average 80 lakh tonnes. Bengal&amp;rsquo;s requirement is about 50 lakh tonnes a year for consumption and around 7 lakh tonnes for seeds.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The glut had driven at least two farmers to suicide in Jalpaiguri and in Burdwan. The government then decided to buy potato directly from the farmers at Rs 3.5 a kg after prices dipped because of the bumper crop. Benfed and Confed had bought nearly 10 lakh tonnes of potato at and kept those in around 375 cold storages across the state.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
An official at the cold storage in Panagarh today said that when the potato was stocked, an agreement was signed under which the co-operative agencies were required to clear the stock by November 30.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Panchanan Samanta, the manager of the cold storage, said that the facility waited so long on &amp;ldquo;humanitarian ground&amp;rdquo; but now the officials were helpless as space had to be provided to farmers to store the new crop.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;We have repeatedly told the Benfed and Confed officials to clear our godowns by November 30 in line with the agreement and also to pay the Rs 38 lakh the co-operatives owe the cold storage. We also moved court, which directed the government to clear the potato stock by December 15 but it failed. Today, we took the potato out of the cold storage because most of it had started to rot,&amp;rdquo; said Samanta.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Agricultural marketing minister Mortaza Hossain pointed fingers at the cold storage. &amp;ldquo;The potato was bought by the government and how dare they take such steps without informing us? Our officers have already lodged an FIR at the local police station as the cold storage authority didn&amp;rsquo;t allow potato traders fixed by us to collect the potato on December 15. We will again lodge a complaint at the way they have destroyed the huge quantity of potato,&amp;rdquo; Hossain said.&lt;br /&gt;
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However, Hossain admitted that the agreement with the cold storage lapsed on November 30. He added that an appeal had been made in the court to extend it till December 15. &amp;ldquo;We had also assured them to pay the rent for the additional 15 days,&amp;rdquo; he added.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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Marie Antoinette may or may not have deadpanned &amp;ldquo;let them eat cake&amp;rdquo; but the Bengal government could have tried saying &amp;ldquo;let them eat potato&amp;rdquo; in these times of price rise.

But out went that opportunity &amp;mdash; along with 7,000 bags or...&#039;,
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&lt;br /&gt;
But out went that opportunity &amp;mdash; along with 7,000 bags or 4,200 tonnes of potatoes at Panagarh in Burdwan.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In terms of cash, potato stocks valued at Rs 50 lakh rotted on the open ground today because of a dispute between a cold storage facility and the state government.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In terms of impact on the ground, hordes of people armed with buckets descended on the field beside the Delhi-Calcutta National Highway 2 where the vegetables were dumped.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As the people &amp;mdash; mostly women who bear the brunt of putting food on the table &amp;mdash; scurried among the piles of nylon bags to scoop up the jyoti variety of potatoes that sell at Rs 9-10 a kg, cattle, too, ambled in for a windfall meal.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In a country with an airline that has placed the largest order for planes in &amp;ldquo;aviation history&amp;rdquo;, cows, goats and humans scurried to pick up what the government apparently refused to.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The private cold storage has accused state-run co-operatives of failing to clear the stocks by November 30 last year &amp;mdash; the deadline set by an agreement. The co-operatives have also been accused of not clearing dues of Rs 38 lakh. The cold storage had charged Rs 4 lakh per month as rent for storing 4,200 tonnes of potato since the middle of March last year.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The stocks had piled up because of market intervention by the government to help farmers and prop up prices. The government had purchased the potato through its co-operatives &amp;mdash; Benfed and Confed &amp;mdash; directly from the farmers in March when a bumper produce had triggered distress sales.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
The glut had driven at least two farmers to suicide in Jalpaiguri and in Burdwan. The government then decided to buy potato directly from the farmers at Rs 3.5 a kg after prices dipped because of the bumper crop. Benfed and Confed had bought nearly 10 lakh tonnes of potato at and kept those in around 375 cold storages across the state.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Panchanan Samanta, the manager of the cold storage, said that the facility waited so long on &amp;ldquo;humanitarian ground&amp;rdquo; but now the officials were helpless as space had to be provided to farmers to store the new crop.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;We have repeatedly told the Benfed and Confed officials to clear our godowns by November 30 in line with the agreement and also to pay the Rs 38 lakh the co-operatives owe the cold storage. We also moved court, which directed the government to clear the potato stock by December 15 but it failed. Today, we took the potato out of the cold storage because most of it had started to rot,&amp;rdquo; said Samanta.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Agricultural marketing minister Mortaza Hossain pointed fingers at the cold storage. &amp;ldquo;The potato was bought by the government and how dare they take such steps without informing us? Our officers have already lodged an FIR at the local police station as the cold storage authority didn&amp;rsquo;t allow potato traders fixed by us to collect the potato on December 15. We will again lodge a complaint at the way they have destroyed the huge quantity of potato,&amp;rdquo; Hossain said.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
However, Hossain admitted that the agreement with the cold storage lapsed on November 30. He added that an appeal had been made in the court to extend it till December 15. &amp;ldquo;We had also assured them to pay the rent for the additional 15 days,&amp;rdquo; he added.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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Marie Antoinette may or may not have deadpanned &amp;ldquo;let them eat cake&amp;rdquo; but the Bengal government could have tried saying &amp;ldquo;let them eat potato&amp;rdquo; in these times of price rise.

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                <br /><div align="justify">Marie Antoinette may or may not have deadpanned &ldquo;let them eat cake&rdquo; but the Bengal government could have tried saying &ldquo;let them eat potato&rdquo; in these times of price rise.<br /><br />But out went that opportunity &mdash; along with 7,000 bags or 4,200 tonnes of potatoes at Panagarh in Burdwan.<br /><br />In terms of cash, potato stocks valued at Rs 50 lakh rotted on the open ground today because of a dispute between a cold storage facility and the state government.<br /><br />In terms of impact on the ground, hordes of people armed with buckets descended on the field beside the Delhi-Calcutta National Highway 2 where the vegetables were dumped.<br /><br />As the people &mdash; mostly women who bear the brunt of putting food on the table &mdash; scurried among the piles of nylon bags to scoop up the jyoti variety of potatoes that sell at Rs 9-10 a kg, cattle, too, ambled in for a windfall meal.<br /><br />In a country with an airline that has placed the largest order for planes in &ldquo;aviation history&rdquo;, cows, goats and humans scurried to pick up what the government apparently refused to.<br /><br />The private cold storage has accused state-run co-operatives of failing to clear the stocks by November 30 last year &mdash; the deadline set by an agreement. The co-operatives have also been accused of not clearing dues of Rs 38 lakh. The cold storage had charged Rs 4 lakh per month as rent for storing 4,200 tonnes of potato since the middle of March last year.<br /><br />The stocks had piled up because of market intervention by the government to help farmers and prop up prices. The government had purchased the potato through its co-operatives &mdash; Benfed and Confed &mdash; directly from the farmers in March when a bumper produce had triggered distress sales.<br /><br />Last year had seen a bumper crop of 95 lakh tonnes of potato against an average 80 lakh tonnes. Bengal&rsquo;s requirement is about 50 lakh tonnes a year for consumption and around 7 lakh tonnes for seeds.<br /><br />The glut had driven at least two farmers to suicide in Jalpaiguri and in Burdwan. The government then decided to buy potato directly from the farmers at Rs 3.5 a kg after prices dipped because of the bumper crop. Benfed and Confed had bought nearly 10 lakh tonnes of potato at and kept those in around 375 cold storages across the state.<br /><br />An official at the cold storage in Panagarh today said that when the potato was stocked, an agreement was signed under which the co-operative agencies were required to clear the stock by November 30.<br /><br />Panchanan Samanta, the manager of the cold storage, said that the facility waited so long on &ldquo;humanitarian ground&rdquo; but now the officials were helpless as space had to be provided to farmers to store the new crop.<br /><br />&ldquo;We have repeatedly told the Benfed and Confed officials to clear our godowns by November 30 in line with the agreement and also to pay the Rs 38 lakh the co-operatives owe the cold storage. We also moved court, which directed the government to clear the potato stock by December 15 but it failed. Today, we took the potato out of the cold storage because most of it had started to rot,&rdquo; said Samanta.<br /><br />Agricultural marketing minister Mortaza Hossain pointed fingers at the cold storage. &ldquo;The potato was bought by the government and how dare they take such steps without informing us? Our officers have already lodged an FIR at the local police station as the cold storage authority didn&rsquo;t allow potato traders fixed by us to collect the potato on December 15. We will again lodge a complaint at the way they have destroyed the huge quantity of potato,&rdquo; Hossain said.<br /><br />However, Hossain admitted that the agreement with the cold storage lapsed on November 30. He added that an appeal had been made in the court to extend it till December 15. &ldquo;We had also assured them to pay the rent for the additional 15 days,&rdquo; he added.<br /><br />&ldquo;We had made arrangements with potato traders to sell the crop at Rs 2.5 per kg. But when some of them went to the cold storage on December 15, they found it locked. We then lodged an FIR. When the traders contacted the cold storage authority for the potato, they delayed handing over the crop. Now they should not blame us. We suspect that they have sold our potato in the black market and have replaced them with a large stock of rotten crop,&rdquo; Hossain said.</div>               </font>
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Marie Antoinette may or may not have deadpanned &amp;ldquo;let them eat cake&amp;rdquo; but the Bengal government could have tried saying &amp;ldquo;let them eat potato&amp;rdquo; in these times of price rise.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But out went that opportunity &amp;mdash; along with 7,000 bags or 4,200 tonnes of potatoes at Panagarh in Burdwan.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In terms of cash, potato stocks valued at Rs 50 lakh rotted on the open ground today because of a dispute between a cold storage facility and the state government.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In terms of impact on the ground, hordes of people armed with buckets descended on the field beside the Delhi-Calcutta National Highway 2 where the vegetables were dumped.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the people &amp;mdash; mostly women who bear the brunt of putting food on the table &amp;mdash; scurried among the piles of nylon bags to scoop up the jyoti variety of potatoes that sell at Rs 9-10 a kg, cattle, too, ambled in for a windfall meal.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In a country with an airline that has placed the largest order for planes in &amp;ldquo;aviation history&amp;rdquo;, cows, goats and humans scurried to pick up what the government apparently refused to.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The private cold storage has accused state-run co-operatives of failing to clear the stocks by November 30 last year &amp;mdash; the deadline set by an agreement. The co-operatives have also been accused of not clearing dues of Rs 38 lakh. The cold storage had charged Rs 4 lakh per month as rent for storing 4,200 tonnes of potato since the middle of March last year.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The stocks had piled up because of market intervention by the government to help farmers and prop up prices. The government had purchased the potato through its co-operatives &amp;mdash; Benfed and Confed &amp;mdash; directly from the farmers in March when a bumper produce had triggered distress sales.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Last year had seen a bumper crop of 95 lakh tonnes of potato against an average 80 lakh tonnes. Bengal&amp;rsquo;s requirement is about 50 lakh tonnes a year for consumption and around 7 lakh tonnes for seeds.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The glut had driven at least two farmers to suicide in Jalpaiguri and in Burdwan. The government then decided to buy potato directly from the farmers at Rs 3.5 a kg after prices dipped because of the bumper crop. Benfed and Confed had bought nearly 10 lakh tonnes of potato at and kept those in around 375 cold storages across the state.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
An official at the cold storage in Panagarh today said that when the potato was stocked, an agreement was signed under which the co-operative agencies were required to clear the stock by November 30.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Panchanan Samanta, the manager of the cold storage, said that the facility waited so long on &amp;ldquo;humanitarian ground&amp;rdquo; but now the officials were helpless as space had to be provided to farmers to store the new crop.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;We have repeatedly told the Benfed and Confed officials to clear our godowns by November 30 in line with the agreement and also to pay the Rs 38 lakh the co-operatives owe the cold storage. We also moved court, which directed the government to clear the potato stock by December 15 but it failed. Today, we took the potato out of the cold storage because most of it had started to rot,&amp;rdquo; said Samanta.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Agricultural marketing minister Mortaza Hossain pointed fingers at the cold storage. &amp;ldquo;The potato was bought by the government and how dare they take such steps without informing us? Our officers have already lodged an FIR at the local police station as the cold storage authority didn&amp;rsquo;t allow potato traders fixed by us to collect the potato on December 15. We will again lodge a complaint at the way they have destroyed the huge quantity of potato,&amp;rdquo; Hossain said.&lt;br /&gt;
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Marie Antoinette may or may not have deadpanned &amp;ldquo;let them eat cake&amp;rdquo; but the Bengal government could have tried saying &amp;ldquo;let them eat potato&amp;rdquo; in these times of price rise.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But out went that opportunity &amp;mdash; along with 7,000 bags or 4,200 tonnes of potatoes at Panagarh in Burdwan.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In terms of cash, potato stocks valued at Rs 50 lakh rotted on the open ground today because of a dispute between a cold storage facility and the state government.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In terms of impact on the ground, hordes of people armed with buckets descended on the field beside the Delhi-Calcutta National Highway 2 where the vegetables were dumped.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As the people &amp;mdash; mostly women who bear the brunt of putting food on the table &amp;mdash; scurried among the piles of nylon bags to scoop up the jyoti variety of potatoes that sell at Rs 9-10 a kg, cattle, too, ambled in for a windfall meal.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In a country with an airline that has placed the largest order for planes in &amp;ldquo;aviation history&amp;rdquo;, cows, goats and humans scurried to pick up what the government apparently refused to.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The private cold storage has accused state-run co-operatives of failing to clear the stocks by November 30 last year &amp;mdash; the deadline set by an agreement. The co-operatives have also been accused of not clearing dues of Rs 38 lakh. The cold storage had charged Rs 4 lakh per month as rent for storing 4,200 tonnes of potato since the middle of March last year.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The stocks had piled up because of market intervention by the government to help farmers and prop up prices. The government had purchased the potato through its co-operatives &amp;mdash; Benfed and Confed &amp;mdash; directly from the farmers in March when a bumper produce had triggered distress sales.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Last year had seen a bumper crop of 95 lakh tonnes of potato against an average 80 lakh tonnes. Bengal&amp;rsquo;s requirement is about 50 lakh tonnes a year for consumption and around 7 lakh tonnes for seeds.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The glut had driven at least two farmers to suicide in Jalpaiguri and in Burdwan. The government then decided to buy potato directly from the farmers at Rs 3.5 a kg after prices dipped because of the bumper crop. Benfed and Confed had bought nearly 10 lakh tonnes of potato at and kept those in around 375 cold storages across the state.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
An official at the cold storage in Panagarh today said that when the potato was stocked, an agreement was signed under which the co-operative agencies were required to clear the stock by November 30.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Panchanan Samanta, the manager of the cold storage, said that the facility waited so long on &amp;ldquo;humanitarian ground&amp;rdquo; but now the officials were helpless as space had to be provided to farmers to store the new crop.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;We have repeatedly told the Benfed and Confed officials to clear our godowns by November 30 in line with the agreement and also to pay the Rs 38 lakh the co-operatives owe the cold storage. We also moved court, which directed the government to clear the potato stock by December 15 but it failed. Today, we took the potato out of the cold storage because most of it had started to rot,&amp;rdquo; said Samanta.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Agricultural marketing minister Mortaza Hossain pointed fingers at the cold storage. &amp;ldquo;The potato was bought by the government and how dare they take such steps without informing us? Our officers have already lodged an FIR at the local police station as the cold storage authority didn&amp;rsquo;t allow potato traders fixed by us to collect the potato on December 15. We will again lodge a complaint at the way they have destroyed the huge quantity of potato,&amp;rdquo; Hossain said.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
However, Hossain admitted that the agreement with the cold storage lapsed on November 30. He added that an appeal had been made in the court to extend it till December 15. &amp;ldquo;We had also assured them to pay the rent for the additional 15 days,&amp;rdquo; he added.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;We had made arrangements with potato traders to sell the crop at Rs 2.5 per kg. But when some of them went to the cold storage on December 15, they found it locked. We then lodged an FIR. When the traders contacted the cold storage authority for the potato, they delayed handing over the crop. Now they should not blame us. We suspect that they have sold our potato in the black market and have replaced them with a large stock of rotten crop,&amp;rdquo; Hossain said.
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Marie Antoinette may or may not have deadpanned &amp;ldquo;let them eat cake&amp;rdquo; but the Bengal government could have tried saying &amp;ldquo;let them eat potato&amp;rdquo; in these times of price rise.

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                <br /><div align="justify">Marie Antoinette may or may not have deadpanned &ldquo;let them eat cake&rdquo; but the Bengal government could have tried saying &ldquo;let them eat potato&rdquo; in these times of price rise.<br /><br />But out went that opportunity &mdash; along with 7,000 bags or 4,200 tonnes of potatoes at Panagarh in Burdwan.<br /><br />In terms of cash, potato stocks valued at Rs 50 lakh rotted on the open ground today because of a dispute between a cold storage facility and the state government.<br /><br />In terms of impact on the ground, hordes of people armed with buckets descended on the field beside the Delhi-Calcutta National Highway 2 where the vegetables were dumped.<br /><br />As the people &mdash; mostly women who bear the brunt of putting food on the table &mdash; scurried among the piles of nylon bags to scoop up the jyoti variety of potatoes that sell at Rs 9-10 a kg, cattle, too, ambled in for a windfall meal.<br /><br />In a country with an airline that has placed the largest order for planes in &ldquo;aviation history&rdquo;, cows, goats and humans scurried to pick up what the government apparently refused to.<br /><br />The private cold storage has accused state-run co-operatives of failing to clear the stocks by November 30 last year &mdash; the deadline set by an agreement. The co-operatives have also been accused of not clearing dues of Rs 38 lakh. The cold storage had charged Rs 4 lakh per month as rent for storing 4,200 tonnes of potato since the middle of March last year.<br /><br />The stocks had piled up because of market intervention by the government to help farmers and prop up prices. The government had purchased the potato through its co-operatives &mdash; Benfed and Confed &mdash; directly from the farmers in March when a bumper produce had triggered distress sales.<br /><br />Last year had seen a bumper crop of 95 lakh tonnes of potato against an average 80 lakh tonnes. Bengal&rsquo;s requirement is about 50 lakh tonnes a year for consumption and around 7 lakh tonnes for seeds.<br /><br />The glut had driven at least two farmers to suicide in Jalpaiguri and in Burdwan. The government then decided to buy potato directly from the farmers at Rs 3.5 a kg after prices dipped because of the bumper crop. Benfed and Confed had bought nearly 10 lakh tonnes of potato at and kept those in around 375 cold storages across the state.<br /><br />An official at the cold storage in Panagarh today said that when the potato was stocked, an agreement was signed under which the co-operative agencies were required to clear the stock by November 30.<br /><br />Panchanan Samanta, the manager of the cold storage, said that the facility waited so long on &ldquo;humanitarian ground&rdquo; but now the officials were helpless as space had to be provided to farmers to store the new crop.<br /><br />&ldquo;We have repeatedly told the Benfed and Confed officials to clear our godowns by November 30 in line with the agreement and also to pay the Rs 38 lakh the co-operatives owe the cold storage. We also moved court, which directed the government to clear the potato stock by December 15 but it failed. Today, we took the potato out of the cold storage because most of it had started to rot,&rdquo; said Samanta.<br /><br />Agricultural marketing minister Mortaza Hossain pointed fingers at the cold storage. &ldquo;The potato was bought by the government and how dare they take such steps without informing us? Our officers have already lodged an FIR at the local police station as the cold storage authority didn&rsquo;t allow potato traders fixed by us to collect the potato on December 15. We will again lodge a complaint at the way they have destroyed the huge quantity of potato,&rdquo; Hossain said.<br /><br />However, Hossain admitted that the agreement with the cold storage lapsed on November 30. He added that an appeal had been made in the court to extend it till December 15. &ldquo;We had also assured them to pay the rent for the additional 15 days,&rdquo; he added.<br /><br />&ldquo;We had made arrangements with potato traders to sell the crop at Rs 2.5 per kg. But when some of them went to the cold storage on December 15, they found it locked. We then lodged an FIR. When the traders contacted the cold storage authority for the potato, they delayed handing over the crop. Now they should not blame us. We suspect that they have sold our potato in the black market and have replaced them with a large stock of rotten crop,&rdquo; Hossain said.</div>               </font>
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Marie Antoinette may or may not have deadpanned &amp;ldquo;let them eat cake&amp;rdquo; but the Bengal government could have tried saying &amp;ldquo;let them eat potato&amp;rdquo; in these times of price rise.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But out went that opportunity &amp;mdash; along with 7,000 bags or 4,200 tonnes of potatoes at Panagarh in Burdwan.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In terms of cash, potato stocks valued at Rs 50 lakh rotted on the open ground today because of a dispute between a cold storage facility and the state government.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In terms of impact on the ground, hordes of people armed with buckets descended on the field beside the Delhi-Calcutta National Highway 2 where the vegetables were dumped.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As the people &amp;mdash; mostly women who bear the brunt of putting food on the table &amp;mdash; scurried among the piles of nylon bags to scoop up the jyoti variety of potatoes that sell at Rs 9-10 a kg, cattle, too, ambled in for a windfall meal.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In a country with an airline that has placed the largest order for planes in &amp;ldquo;aviation history&amp;rdquo;, cows, goats and humans scurried to pick up what the government apparently refused to.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The private cold storage has accused state-run co-operatives of failing to clear the stocks by November 30 last year &amp;mdash; the deadline set by an agreement. The co-operatives have also been accused of not clearing dues of Rs 38 lakh. The cold storage had charged Rs 4 lakh per month as rent for storing 4,200 tonnes of potato since the middle of March last year.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The stocks had piled up because of market intervention by the government to help farmers and prop up prices. The government had purchased the potato through its co-operatives &amp;mdash; Benfed and Confed &amp;mdash; directly from the farmers in March when a bumper produce had triggered distress sales.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Last year had seen a bumper crop of 95 lakh tonnes of potato against an average 80 lakh tonnes. Bengal&amp;rsquo;s requirement is about 50 lakh tonnes a year for consumption and around 7 lakh tonnes for seeds.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The glut had driven at least two farmers to suicide in Jalpaiguri and in Burdwan. The government then decided to buy potato directly from the farmers at Rs 3.5 a kg after prices dipped because of the bumper crop. Benfed and Confed had bought nearly 10 lakh tonnes of potato at and kept those in around 375 cold storages across the state.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
An official at the cold storage in Panagarh today said that when the potato was stocked, an agreement was signed under which the co-operative agencies were required to clear the stock by November 30.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Panchanan Samanta, the manager of the cold storage, said that the facility waited so long on &amp;ldquo;humanitarian ground&amp;rdquo; but now the officials were helpless as space had to be provided to farmers to store the new crop.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;We have repeatedly told the Benfed and Confed officials to clear our godowns by November 30 in line with the agreement and also to pay the Rs 38 lakh the co-operatives owe the cold storage. We also moved court, which directed the government to clear the potato stock by December 15 but it failed. Today, we took the potato out of the cold storage because most of it had started to rot,&amp;rdquo; said Samanta.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Agricultural marketing minister Mortaza Hossain pointed fingers at the cold storage. &amp;ldquo;The potato was bought by the government and how dare they take such steps without informing us? Our officers have already lodged an FIR at the local police station as the cold storage authority didn&amp;rsquo;t allow potato traders fixed by us to collect the potato on December 15. We will again lodge a complaint at the way they have destroyed the huge quantity of potato,&amp;rdquo; Hossain said.&lt;br /&gt;
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However, Hossain admitted that the agreement with the cold storage lapsed on November 30. He added that an appeal had been made in the court to extend it till December 15. &amp;ldquo;We had also assured them to pay the rent for the additional 15 days,&amp;rdquo; he added.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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Marie Antoinette may or may not have deadpanned &amp;ldquo;let them eat cake&amp;rdquo; but the Bengal government could have tried saying &amp;ldquo;let them eat potato&amp;rdquo; in these times of price rise.

But out went that opportunity &amp;mdash; along with 7,000 bags or...&#039;,
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&lt;br /&gt;
But out went that opportunity &amp;mdash; along with 7,000 bags or 4,200 tonnes of potatoes at Panagarh in Burdwan.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In terms of cash, potato stocks valued at Rs 50 lakh rotted on the open ground today because of a dispute between a cold storage facility and the state government.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In terms of impact on the ground, hordes of people armed with buckets descended on the field beside the Delhi-Calcutta National Highway 2 where the vegetables were dumped.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As the people &amp;mdash; mostly women who bear the brunt of putting food on the table &amp;mdash; scurried among the piles of nylon bags to scoop up the jyoti variety of potatoes that sell at Rs 9-10 a kg, cattle, too, ambled in for a windfall meal.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In a country with an airline that has placed the largest order for planes in &amp;ldquo;aviation history&amp;rdquo;, cows, goats and humans scurried to pick up what the government apparently refused to.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The private cold storage has accused state-run co-operatives of failing to clear the stocks by November 30 last year &amp;mdash; the deadline set by an agreement. The co-operatives have also been accused of not clearing dues of Rs 38 lakh. The cold storage had charged Rs 4 lakh per month as rent for storing 4,200 tonnes of potato since the middle of March last year.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The stocks had piled up because of market intervention by the government to help farmers and prop up prices. The government had purchased the potato through its co-operatives &amp;mdash; Benfed and Confed &amp;mdash; directly from the farmers in March when a bumper produce had triggered distress sales.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
The glut had driven at least two farmers to suicide in Jalpaiguri and in Burdwan. The government then decided to buy potato directly from the farmers at Rs 3.5 a kg after prices dipped because of the bumper crop. Benfed and Confed had bought nearly 10 lakh tonnes of potato at and kept those in around 375 cold storages across the state.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
An official at the cold storage in Panagarh today said that when the potato was stocked, an agreement was signed under which the co-operative agencies were required to clear the stock by November 30.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Panchanan Samanta, the manager of the cold storage, said that the facility waited so long on &amp;ldquo;humanitarian ground&amp;rdquo; but now the officials were helpless as space had to be provided to farmers to store the new crop.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;We have repeatedly told the Benfed and Confed officials to clear our godowns by November 30 in line with the agreement and also to pay the Rs 38 lakh the co-operatives owe the cold storage. We also moved court, which directed the government to clear the potato stock by December 15 but it failed. Today, we took the potato out of the cold storage because most of it had started to rot,&amp;rdquo; said Samanta.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Agricultural marketing minister Mortaza Hossain pointed fingers at the cold storage. &amp;ldquo;The potato was bought by the government and how dare they take such steps without informing us? Our officers have already lodged an FIR at the local police station as the cold storage authority didn&amp;rsquo;t allow potato traders fixed by us to collect the potato on December 15. We will again lodge a complaint at the way they have destroyed the huge quantity of potato,&amp;rdquo; Hossain said.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
However, Hossain admitted that the agreement with the cold storage lapsed on November 30. He added that an appeal had been made in the court to extend it till December 15. &amp;ldquo;We had also assured them to pay the rent for the additional 15 days,&amp;rdquo; he added.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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Marie Antoinette may or may not have deadpanned &amp;ldquo;let them eat cake&amp;rdquo; but the Bengal government could have tried saying &amp;ldquo;let them eat potato&amp;rdquo; in these times of price rise.

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                <br /><div align="justify">Marie Antoinette may or may not have deadpanned &ldquo;let them eat cake&rdquo; but the Bengal government could have tried saying &ldquo;let them eat potato&rdquo; in these times of price rise.<br /><br />But out went that opportunity &mdash; along with 7,000 bags or 4,200 tonnes of potatoes at Panagarh in Burdwan.<br /><br />In terms of cash, potato stocks valued at Rs 50 lakh rotted on the open ground today because of a dispute between a cold storage facility and the state government.<br /><br />In terms of impact on the ground, hordes of people armed with buckets descended on the field beside the Delhi-Calcutta National Highway 2 where the vegetables were dumped.<br /><br />As the people &mdash; mostly women who bear the brunt of putting food on the table &mdash; scurried among the piles of nylon bags to scoop up the jyoti variety of potatoes that sell at Rs 9-10 a kg, cattle, too, ambled in for a windfall meal.<br /><br />In a country with an airline that has placed the largest order for planes in &ldquo;aviation history&rdquo;, cows, goats and humans scurried to pick up what the government apparently refused to.<br /><br />The private cold storage has accused state-run co-operatives of failing to clear the stocks by November 30 last year &mdash; the deadline set by an agreement. The co-operatives have also been accused of not clearing dues of Rs 38 lakh. The cold storage had charged Rs 4 lakh per month as rent for storing 4,200 tonnes of potato since the middle of March last year.<br /><br />The stocks had piled up because of market intervention by the government to help farmers and prop up prices. The government had purchased the potato through its co-operatives &mdash; Benfed and Confed &mdash; directly from the farmers in March when a bumper produce had triggered distress sales.<br /><br />Last year had seen a bumper crop of 95 lakh tonnes of potato against an average 80 lakh tonnes. Bengal&rsquo;s requirement is about 50 lakh tonnes a year for consumption and around 7 lakh tonnes for seeds.<br /><br />The glut had driven at least two farmers to suicide in Jalpaiguri and in Burdwan. The government then decided to buy potato directly from the farmers at Rs 3.5 a kg after prices dipped because of the bumper crop. Benfed and Confed had bought nearly 10 lakh tonnes of potato at and kept those in around 375 cold storages across the state.<br /><br />An official at the cold storage in Panagarh today said that when the potato was stocked, an agreement was signed under which the co-operative agencies were required to clear the stock by November 30.<br /><br />Panchanan Samanta, the manager of the cold storage, said that the facility waited so long on &ldquo;humanitarian ground&rdquo; but now the officials were helpless as space had to be provided to farmers to store the new crop.<br /><br />&ldquo;We have repeatedly told the Benfed and Confed officials to clear our godowns by November 30 in line with the agreement and also to pay the Rs 38 lakh the co-operatives owe the cold storage. We also moved court, which directed the government to clear the potato stock by December 15 but it failed. Today, we took the potato out of the cold storage because most of it had started to rot,&rdquo; said Samanta.<br /><br />Agricultural marketing minister Mortaza Hossain pointed fingers at the cold storage. &ldquo;The potato was bought by the government and how dare they take such steps without informing us? Our officers have already lodged an FIR at the local police station as the cold storage authority didn&rsquo;t allow potato traders fixed by us to collect the potato on December 15. We will again lodge a complaint at the way they have destroyed the huge quantity of potato,&rdquo; Hossain said.<br /><br />However, Hossain admitted that the agreement with the cold storage lapsed on November 30. He added that an appeal had been made in the court to extend it till December 15. &ldquo;We had also assured them to pay the rent for the additional 15 days,&rdquo; he added.<br /><br />&ldquo;We had made arrangements with potato traders to sell the crop at Rs 2.5 per kg. But when some of them went to the cold storage on December 15, they found it locked. We then lodged an FIR. When the traders contacted the cold storage authority for the potato, they delayed handing over the crop. Now they should not blame us. We suspect that they have sold our potato in the black market and have replaced them with a large stock of rotten crop,&rdquo; Hossain said.</div>               </font>
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Marie Antoinette may or may not have deadpanned &ldquo;let them eat cake&rdquo; but the Bengal government could have tried saying &ldquo;let them eat potato&rdquo; in these times of price rise.<br />
<br />
But out went that opportunity &mdash; along with 7,000 bags or 4,200 tonnes of potatoes at Panagarh in Burdwan.<br />
<br />
In terms of cash, potato stocks valued at Rs 50 lakh rotted on the open ground today because of a dispute between a cold storage facility and the state government.<br />
<br />
In terms of impact on the ground, hordes of people armed with buckets descended on the field beside the Delhi-Calcutta National Highway 2 where the vegetables were dumped.<br />
<br />
As the people &mdash; mostly women who bear the brunt of putting food on the table &mdash; scurried among the piles of nylon bags to scoop up the jyoti variety of potatoes that sell at Rs 9-10 a kg, cattle, too, ambled in for a windfall meal.<br />
<br />
In a country with an airline that has placed the largest order for planes in &ldquo;aviation history&rdquo;, cows, goats and humans scurried to pick up what the government apparently refused to.<br />
<br />
The private cold storage has accused state-run co-operatives of failing to clear the stocks by November 30 last year &mdash; the deadline set by an agreement. The co-operatives have also been accused of not clearing dues of Rs 38 lakh. The cold storage had charged Rs 4 lakh per month as rent for storing 4,200 tonnes of potato since the middle of March last year.<br />
<br />
The stocks had piled up because of market intervention by the government to help farmers and prop up prices. The government had purchased the potato through its co-operatives &mdash; Benfed and Confed &mdash; directly from the farmers in March when a bumper produce had triggered distress sales.<br />
<br />
Last year had seen a bumper crop of 95 lakh tonnes of potato against an average 80 lakh tonnes. Bengal&rsquo;s requirement is about 50 lakh tonnes a year for consumption and around 7 lakh tonnes for seeds.<br />
<br />
The glut had driven at least two farmers to suicide in Jalpaiguri and in Burdwan. The government then decided to buy potato directly from the farmers at Rs 3.5 a kg after prices dipped because of the bumper crop. Benfed and Confed had bought nearly 10 lakh tonnes of potato at and kept those in around 375 cold storages across the state.<br />
<br />
An official at the cold storage in Panagarh today said that when the potato was stocked, an agreement was signed under which the co-operative agencies were required to clear the stock by November 30.<br />
<br />
Panchanan Samanta, the manager of the cold storage, said that the facility waited so long on &ldquo;humanitarian ground&rdquo; but now the officials were helpless as space had to be provided to farmers to store the new crop.<br />
<br />
&ldquo;We have repeatedly told the Benfed and Confed officials to clear our godowns by November 30 in line with the agreement and also to pay the Rs 38 lakh the co-operatives owe the cold storage. We also moved court, which directed the government to clear the potato stock by December 15 but it failed. Today, we took the potato out of the cold storage because most of it had started to rot,&rdquo; said Samanta.<br />
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Agricultural marketing minister Mortaza Hossain pointed fingers at the cold storage. &ldquo;The potato was bought by the government and how dare they take such steps without informing us? Our officers have already lodged an FIR at the local police station as the cold storage authority didn&rsquo;t allow potato traders fixed by us to collect the potato on December 15. We will again lodge a complaint at the way they have destroyed the huge quantity of potato,&rdquo; Hossain said.<br />
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However, Hossain admitted that the agreement with the cold storage lapsed on November 30. He added that an appeal had been made in the court to extend it till December 15. &ldquo;We had also assured them to pay the rent for the additional 15 days,&rdquo; he added.<br />
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&ldquo;We had made arrangements with potato traders to sell the crop at Rs 2.5 per kg. But when some of them went to the cold storage on December 15, they found it locked. We then lodged an FIR. When the traders contacted the cold storage authority for the potato, they delayed handing over the crop. Now they should not blame us. We suspect that they have sold our potato in the black market and have replaced them with a large stock of rotten crop,&rdquo; Hossain said.
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Marie Antoinette may or may not have deadpanned &ldquo;let them eat cake&rdquo; but the Bengal government could have tried saying &ldquo;let them eat potato&rdquo; in these times of price rise.<br />
<br />
But out went that opportunity &mdash; along with 7,000 bags or 4,200 tonnes of potatoes at Panagarh in Burdwan.<br />
<br />
In terms of cash, potato stocks valued at Rs 50 lakh rotted on the open ground today because of a dispute between a cold storage facility and the state government.<br />
<br />
In terms of impact on the ground, hordes of people armed with buckets descended on the field beside the Delhi-Calcutta National Highway 2 where the vegetables were dumped.<br />
<br />
As the people &mdash; mostly women who bear the brunt of putting food on the table &mdash; scurried among the piles of nylon bags to scoop up the jyoti variety of potatoes that sell at Rs 9-10 a kg, cattle, too, ambled in for a windfall meal.<br />
<br />
In a country with an airline that has placed the largest order for planes in &ldquo;aviation history&rdquo;, cows, goats and humans scurried to pick up what the government apparently refused to.<br />
<br />
The private cold storage has accused state-run co-operatives of failing to clear the stocks by November 30 last year &mdash; the deadline set by an agreement. The co-operatives have also been accused of not clearing dues of Rs 38 lakh. The cold storage had charged Rs 4 lakh per month as rent for storing 4,200 tonnes of potato since the middle of March last year.<br />
<br />
The stocks had piled up because of market intervention by the government to help farmers and prop up prices. The government had purchased the potato through its co-operatives &mdash; Benfed and Confed &mdash; directly from the farmers in March when a bumper produce had triggered distress sales.<br />
<br />
Last year had seen a bumper crop of 95 lakh tonnes of potato against an average 80 lakh tonnes. Bengal&rsquo;s requirement is about 50 lakh tonnes a year for consumption and around 7 lakh tonnes for seeds.<br />
<br />
The glut had driven at least two farmers to suicide in Jalpaiguri and in Burdwan. The government then decided to buy potato directly from the farmers at Rs 3.5 a kg after prices dipped because of the bumper crop. Benfed and Confed had bought nearly 10 lakh tonnes of potato at and kept those in around 375 cold storages across the state.<br />
<br />
An official at the cold storage in Panagarh today said that when the potato was stocked, an agreement was signed under which the co-operative agencies were required to clear the stock by November 30.<br />
<br />
Panchanan Samanta, the manager of the cold storage, said that the facility waited so long on &ldquo;humanitarian ground&rdquo; but now the officials were helpless as space had to be provided to farmers to store the new crop.<br />
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&ldquo;We have repeatedly told the Benfed and Confed officials to clear our godowns by November 30 in line with the agreement and also to pay the Rs 38 lakh the co-operatives owe the cold storage. We also moved court, which directed the government to clear the potato stock by December 15 but it failed. Today, we took the potato out of the cold storage because most of it had started to rot,&rdquo; said Samanta.<br />
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Agricultural marketing minister Mortaza Hossain pointed fingers at the cold storage. &ldquo;The potato was bought by the government and how dare they take such steps without informing us? Our officers have already lodged an FIR at the local police station as the cold storage authority didn&rsquo;t allow potato traders fixed by us to collect the potato on December 15. We will again lodge a complaint at the way they have destroyed the huge quantity of potato,&rdquo; Hossain said.<br />
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However, Hossain admitted that the agreement with the cold storage lapsed on November 30. He added that an appeal had been made in the court to extend it till December 15. &ldquo;We had also assured them to pay the rent for the additional 15 days,&rdquo; he added.<br />
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&ldquo;We had made arrangements with potato traders to sell the crop at Rs 2.5 per kg. But when some of them went to the cold storage on December 15, they found it locked. We then lodged an FIR. When the traders contacted the cold storage authority for the potato, they delayed handing over the crop. Now they should not blame us. We suspect that they have sold our potato in the black market and have replaced them with a large stock of rotten crop,&rdquo; Hossain said.
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Marie Antoinette may or may not have deadpanned &ldquo;let them eat cake&rdquo; but the Bengal government could have tried saying &ldquo;let them eat potato&rdquo; in these times of price rise.

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Potato Utopia in Left Bengal by Abhijeet Chatterjee

Marie Antoinette may or may not have deadpanned “let them eat cake” but the Bengal government could have tried saying “let them eat potato” in these times of price rise. But out went that opportunity — along with 7,000 bags or 4,200 tonnes of potatoes at Panagarh in Burdwan. In terms of cash, potato stocks valued at Rs 50 lakh rotted on the open ground today because of a dispute between a cold storage facility and the state government. In terms of impact on the ground, hordes of people armed with buckets descended on the field beside the Delhi-Calcutta National Highway 2 where the vegetables were dumped. As the people — mostly women who bear the brunt of putting food on the table — scurried among the piles of nylon bags to scoop up the jyoti variety of potatoes that sell at Rs 9-10 a kg, cattle, too, ambled in for a windfall meal. In a country with an airline that has placed the largest order for planes in “aviation history”, cows, goats and humans scurried to pick up what the government apparently refused to. The private cold storage has accused state-run co-operatives of failing to clear the stocks by November 30 last year — the deadline set by an agreement. The co-operatives have also been accused of not clearing dues of Rs 38 lakh. The cold storage had charged Rs 4 lakh per month as rent for storing 4,200 tonnes of potato since the middle of March last year. The stocks had piled up because of market intervention by the government to help farmers and prop up prices. The government had purchased the potato through its co-operatives — Benfed and Confed — directly from the farmers in March when a bumper produce had triggered distress sales. Last year had seen a bumper crop of 95 lakh tonnes of potato against an average 80 lakh tonnes. Bengal’s requirement is about 50 lakh tonnes a year for consumption and around 7 lakh tonnes for seeds. The glut had driven at least two farmers to suicide in Jalpaiguri and in Burdwan. The government then decided to buy potato directly from the farmers at Rs 3.5 a kg after prices dipped because of the bumper crop. Benfed and Confed had bought nearly 10 lakh tonnes of potato at and kept those in around 375 cold storages across the state. An official at the cold storage in Panagarh today said that when the potato was stocked, an agreement was signed under which the co-operative agencies were required to clear the stock by November 30. Panchanan Samanta, the manager of the cold storage, said that the facility waited so long on “humanitarian ground” but now the officials were helpless as space had to be provided to farmers to store the new crop. “We have repeatedly told the Benfed and Confed officials to clear our godowns by November 30 in line with the agreement and also to pay the Rs 38 lakh the co-operatives owe the cold storage. We also moved court, which directed the government to clear the potato stock by December 15 but it failed. Today, we took the potato out of the cold storage because most of it had started to rot,” said Samanta. Agricultural marketing minister Mortaza Hossain pointed fingers at the cold storage. “The potato was bought by the government and how dare they take such steps without informing us? Our officers have already lodged an FIR at the local police station as the cold storage authority didn’t allow potato traders fixed by us to collect the potato on December 15. We will again lodge a complaint at the way they have destroyed the huge quantity of potato,” Hossain said. However, Hossain admitted that the agreement with the cold storage lapsed on November 30. He added that an appeal had been made in the court to extend it till December 15. “We had also assured them to pay the rent for the additional 15 days,” he added. “We had made arrangements with potato traders to sell the crop at Rs 2.5 per kg. But when some of them went to the cold storage on December 15, they found it locked. We then lodged an FIR. When the traders contacted the cold storage authority for the potato, they delayed handing over the crop. Now they should not blame us. We suspect that they have sold our potato in the black market and have replaced them with a large stock of rotten crop,” Hossain said.