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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | State Govt Documents Belie Nitish Kumar's Claim on Grain Procurement in Bihar -Dheeraj Mishra

State Govt Documents Belie Nitish Kumar's Claim on Grain Procurement in Bihar -Dheeraj Mishra

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published Published on Dec 10, 2020   modified Modified on Dec 10, 2020

-TheWire.in

In a letter to the Centre, Bihar's agriculture secretary said that farmers were forced to sell their produce at low prices due to lack of go-downs and procurement facilities.

New Delhi: Even as protests by farmers continue unabated against the three agriculture laws enacted by the Narendra Modi government, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has spoken in favour of the Centre’s move claiming that the new laws are being implemented across the country in line with the Bihar government’s decision to abolish the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committees (APMC) Act in 2006, which had benefited a large number of farmers.

“Such a system has been in place in Bihar since 2006 benefitting the farmers,” he claimed. “This system will now come into force across the country. Farmers in Bihar are not facing any problem with this system and food grain procurement is going on. This year, the government has set a target of purchasing more than 3 million tonnes of paddy.”

Commenting on the ongoing farmers’ protest, Nitish Kumar also said that the new farm laws will not create any difficulty for farmers in crop procurement and that the protests were taking place because of misconceptions amongst farmers.

However, official documents obtained by The Wire reveal that Bihar’s Ministry of Agriculture had written to the Central government stating that they had neither sufficient godowns nor proper procurement arrangements, due to which farmers were compelled to sell their produce at throwaway prices.

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TheWire.in, 10 December, 2020, https://thewire.in/government/nitish-kumar-bihar-farm-bill-paddy-procurement


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