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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Turmeric sowing begins on apprehensive note -S Harpal Singh

Turmeric sowing begins on apprehensive note -S Harpal Singh

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published Published on Jun 25, 2014   modified Modified on Jun 25, 2014
-The Hindu
 

Adilabad (Andhra Pradesh): Turmeric sowing has begun in Adilabad, but farmers are anxious about the price which their produce will attract eventually.

"The market trend is not healthy so far as the price of turmeric is concerned and this could add to the problems of farmers, who are already reeling under the effect of the heavy loss they suffered owing to the dismally low price last season," says K. Narasimham Naidu from Armoor in Nizamabad, who is the founder president of AP Turmeric Farmers Association, a representative unit of turmeric farmers in AP and Telangana.

The trend in price however, may not result in decrease in the area under turmeric cultivation in this district as there is no hope for farmers to succeed if they went in for other cash crops. Like last year, about 10,000 acres in the mandals of Dilawarpur, Nirmal, Laxmanchanda, Mamda, Khanapur and Kadem will be sown withturmeric .

Demand for Turmeric Board

"We have pinned our hopes on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nizamabad MP K. Kavitha towards establishing a Turmeric Board. They had assured the farmers of doing so during their election campaigns," says Lakkavathula Ramesh, a farmer from Khanapur as he broached a long pending demand for the Board.

A turmeric board will regulate all aspects including local trading and its export. Regulation will remove the huge disparity in the price which the farmers get and the profits earned by traders and middlemen.

"Farmers are not even able to recover their investment of about Rs.1.5 lakh per acre if the yield is below 15 quintals as the maximum price is pegged at Rs. 6,000 per quintal. On the other hand, exporters are selling the same turmeric at Rs.30,000 a quintal," Mr. Naidu points out the lopsidedness.

The APTFA, according to its founder president will also come up again with the demand for declaring turmeric as a commodity.

"This will have the government fix a minimum support price for the produce," he says.

 


Farmers anxious about price as turmeric fetched low price last year

 


The Hindu, 24 June, 2014, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/turmeric-sowing-begins-on-apprehensive-note/article6143775.ece


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