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Resource centre on India's rural distress
 
 

Why do farmers resort to dumping produce? -A Narayanamoorthy and P Alli

-The Hindu Business Line

With bumper harvests, farmers are forced to sell the stocks to middlemen for a pittance or let them go to waste. Better integration of markets, development and maintenance of storage facilities could help avoid this problem

Farmers are the worst hit due to the coronavirus lockdown, unable to harvest crops and sell the harvested produce in the market. The dairy farmers of Assam and Karnataka; and vegetable, fruit and flower growers of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Punjab, Haryana and West Bengal have left their produce rotting in fields or dumped on the roadside. Similar reports continue to pour in from other States as well. Disruptions in the agricultural supply chain in the aftermath of the nationwide lockdown has left the farmers with no option but to dump their farm produce.

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