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Why are Madhya Pradesh farmers throwing away their garlic crops? -Rakesh Kumar Malviya

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published Published on Aug 22, 2022   modified Modified on Aug 23, 2022

-Down to Earth

The production of the allium has doubled in the last decade; Chinese, Iranian garlic with larger cloves in greater demand, say farmers

There have been several calls to allow garlic export after several video clips on social media showed farmers from Madhya Pradesh throwing out or burning their crops, allegedly over low prices of the allium. 

One clip making rounds showed the crop being dumped into a river, while another showed farmers pouring petrol on garlic and setting it on fire in Mandsaur, which has the state’s largest garlic market. Several incidents like these have been reported in Madhya Pradesh in the last few months.

The price of garlic is so low that farmers cannot even recover the money they invested in cultivation, Jagdish Patel told Down To Earth. The farmer from Rajoda village in Dewas cultivates wheat, onion and garlic. 

This year, Patel grew garlic on three bighas of land or 0.6 acres. It cost him around Rs 30,000 per bigha of land, meaning he spent around Rs 90,000. Garlic crops require special additives and the fields need to be weeded and graded by hand, which drives up the cost. 

Patel’s crop yield was around 4,750 kilogrammes. However, the current market rate for garlic is around Rs 100-150 for 50 kg. “Farmers can’t even recover the cost of tilling the land at these rates,” the farmer told DTE. 

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Down to Earth, 22 August, 2022, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/agriculture/why-are-madhya-pradesh-farmers-throwing-away-their-garlic-crops--84448?fbclid=IwAR0I_HIRY2X7ZUVdKU4LgcKRPyAYeWhFapD09crrY_tZoj2OFhRajSvYskg


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