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Why didn't Madhya Pradesh farmers gain from farm growth? -Abhiram Ghadyalpatil

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published Published on Jun 26, 2017   modified Modified on Jun 26, 2017
-Livemint.com

Madhya Pradesh farmers are unhappy that outsiders are misled by claims made by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Indore, Harda, Mandsaur (MP): Ghanshyam Singh Pipawat, 45, a farmer from the Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh, has a question for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“When Modi declared notebandi, he said this would be the last time people will have to stand in line. Then why am I standing in a 2-km-long line to sell my onions for just Rs8 per kg? Yeh line nahi hai kya? Raste par la diya Modi ne (Is this not a line? Modi has brought me to the street),” Pipawat says bitterly.

On 13 June, he had lined up his tractor loaded with onions outside a wholesale market at Unhel, on the road linking Ujjain to Mandsaur. When we met him on the morning of 16 June, Pipawat was still in the queue, along with 200-odd vehicles waiting to enter the agriculture produce marketing committee (APMC) market. Pipawat and other farmers had been living on the road for three to four days, eating in the shade of their tractors what they could buy from street food stalls.

“We are running out of cash,” said Narayan Singh Ajna of village Rupakhedi. “Even if we manage to sell our onions, we won’t be carrying cash with us back home because the procurement money would be transferred to our accounts through RTGS (real time gross settlement),” says Ajna, expressing dissatisfaction with the electronic transfer of money to bank accounts. He had joined the queue on 12 June.

In India’s model agriculture state, farmers are unhappy that outsiders are misled by the claims made by their astute chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Mint explains here why farmers in Madhya Pradesh have not gained much from the rise in farm productivity.

On the ground, farmers and activists tell a different story. “We accept Chouhan’s claim that farm productivity has risen in Madhya Pradesh. But the credit goes to the farmers. What have they gained? Far from a substantial increase in remunerative prices, farmers here have lost even what they used to get three years back,” says Kedar Sirohi, founder-member of Aam Kisan Union that has been the face of the farm unrest in the state.

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