New Delhi: Here is an eye-opening example of how the new farm laws can ‘revolutionise’ the living standards and earnings of farmers. During winters, cauliflower is produced on a large scale in Bihar. However, the market price of cauliflower dipped so low this year that farmers are forced to sell their produce to as low as Rs 1 per kg.
Om Prakash Yadav, a farmer of Muktapur village in Samastipur wasn’t able to fetch even Rs 1 per kg for cauliflower in the local market. He got so much frustrated that he ran a tractor over his fields and destroyed a significant chunk of agricultural produce.
Thanks to the intervention of Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad that the farmer has now rightly got his due. Also, it has opened avenues of opportunity for fellow farmers. The Union Minister directed his Common Service Centre (CSC) department to help the farmer by selling his crops in any market of the country at good price.
मैंने अपने विभाग के कॉमन सर्विस सेण्टर को निर्देश दिया कि इस किसान से संपर्क कर इनकी फसल को देश के किसी भी बाज़ार में उचित मूल्य पर बेचने का प्रबंध किया जाये। @CSCegov_ के डिजिटल प्लेटफॉर्म ई-किसान मार्ट पर इस किसान को दिल्ली के एक खरीदार ने दस रूपये प्रति किलो का मूल्य ऑफर किया। pic.twitter.com/S21ZHkeNHM
— Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) December 16, 2020
New farm laws help farmer multiply his income
The Minister himself took to Twitter to share details of how farmer got right price for his crop. The VLE of the Common Service Centre contacted the farmer and helped him to sell his produce at an offered price of Rs 10 per kg in Delhi.
After the mutual consent between farmer and buyer, Yadav received half of the amount as an advance in his bank account and this morning the entire crop was loaded on the truck. Farmer received the remaining amount in his bank account while the cauliflower left for Delhi.
अब @narendramodi सरकार के नए कृषि कानूनों ने किसान को अपनी फसल कहीं भी बेचने की आज़ादी दे दी है। बिहार का ये किसान जिसे स्थानीय मंडी में मिल रहे दाम से निराश हो कर अपनी फसल नष्ट करने पर मजबूर होना पड़ा था, अब स्थानीय दाम से दस गुना अधिक दाम पर दिल्ली में अपनी फसल बेच पाया है। pic.twitter.com/PdF28aRsYt
— Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) December 16, 2020
The whole amount of transportation was borne by the buyer. In this first batch, the farmer sold about 4 tons of cauliflower for which he got 10 times the amount from the local market.
CSC building up digital platform for farmer-buyer tie-up
The Common Service Centre has teamed up with a startup Agri10x which is building a digital platform for farmers through which farmers can easily sell their crops by directly contacting buyers from all over the country. Through this platform, the buyers don’t need to pay for transportation.
The new revolutionary farm laws have given farmers the freedom to sell their crops anywhere in the country. Om Prakash Yadav, a farmer from Bihar was forced to destroy his crop because he wasn’t getting the low amount for his produce but now with these new laws he has sold his crops at a price ten times higher than the local price.