MP: 5 circumstances of non-payment amid drop in mandi industry, SDMs connect houses in 2
| Bhopal |
December 20, 2020 5:36:51 am
Farmers in Gwalior and Balaghat are suffering for charge of dues with the SDMs drawing near the police to track the absconding buyers and take hold of their assets. (information photograph/Representational Symbol)
With the brand new farm acts getting into play permitting deregulated industry outdoor mandi premises in personal industry space, Madhya Pradesh has recorded 5 cases of non-payment of dues of which 3 have been resolved via the sub-divisional magistrates via forming a joint committee and summoning the involved events, whilst buyers are absconding in two different circumstances, leaving the farmers in lurch and prompting the government to continue with seizure of houses.
This comes at a time when the mandis are registering a decline each of their industry in addition to earning as a result of many buyers have moved out of regulated mandi premises to acquire grains from farmers in a personal setup. Buyers coming to APMC mandis dropped via 20.65 in keeping with cent in November with six of the seven divisions recording a drop in industry. Ujjain’s APMC mandi was once an exception recording a 24.49 in keeping with cent building up in industry. The entire earnings generated via the 259 mandis in MP dropped via 4.48 % in November in comparison with November remaining yr.
To verify efficient implementation of the farm rules, quickly after it was once enforced, a webinar was once organised for the district management personnel on the tehsil stage, Primary Secretary (Agriculture) Ajit Kesari instructed The Indian information. “To lend a hand convey down such cases” of non-payment, two officers were assigned to stay a tab of the sale within the personal industry space outdoor mandi premises so such a case is due to this fact dropped at the SDM’s understand, he mentioned. “The farmers are acquainted with mandi officers and those problems with non-payment of dues would simply come to their understand as farmers widespread the mandis greater than the SDM’s place of job.”
The earliest criticism of non-payment was once recorded on October 10 in Barwani district, when the SDM of Panselum tehsil was once approached via a farmer from Maharashtra’s Dhule district who had offered 270 quintals of maize to 2 buyers from Panselum in July and was once looking ahead to reimbursement of dues amounting to almost Rs 3.30 lakh. SDM (Barwani) Sumer Singh Mujalde mentioned, “Whilst the industry had now not took place in our jurisdiction, the buyers lived in our tehsil, and therefore we shaped a committee and the buyers have been summoned.” The buyers cleared the dues in two installments, and the subject was once resolved on November Four when the farmer gave a written utility to the SDM that no charge was once due.
In Hoshangabad, a Delhi-based company recognized as Fortune Corporate entered into an settlement with rice farmers in Pipariya district to shop for their produce at Rs 50 upper than the velocity presented within the mandi. However as the costs soared and touched Rs 2,950, the company’s brokers switched off their telephones with the date of acquire drawing near. SDM Pipariya Nitin Story mentioned a joint committee was once knowledgeable after a criticism from farmers. “The (company’s) director… came to visit and ensured that all of the produce of the farmers is bought after a summon was once issued to him.”
In Jabalpur, a regimen inspection on December Five discovered a dealer in ownership of 17 quintals of paddy amid procurement being performed on MSP, and extra enquiry published he had bought the rice from 3 farmers within sight, with out giving them both the promised Rs 22 lakh or any receipt for acquire. SDM (Patan) Ashish Pandey mentioned, “We ensured that the farmers got their dues inside the subsequent 24 hours. Whilst those farmers who had registered themselves for MSP, their registration was once cancelled as they’d already offered their produce to the dealer.”
Alternatively, farmers in Gwalior and Balaghat are suffering for charge of dues with the SDMs drawing near the police to track the absconding buyers and take hold of their assets.
In Balaghat, a gaggle of paddy farmers approached the police in Lanchi tehsil and mentioned a rice mill proprietor is but to transparent their dues. The SDM had shaped a panel to get to the bottom of the problem on December 13 however with the buyers absconding, the method to take hold of assets is now underway.
In Gwalior, 24 farmers wrote to the SDM about non-payment of Rs 10 lakh via a intermediary who lived of their village, Bajna, however left the world at the side of his circle of relatives and stays untraceable. An FIR was once filed and the district management is within the technique of seizing the dealer’s area. The police have additionally begun a seek of his assets in Ahmedabad.
SDM of Bhitarwar tehsil, Ashwini Rawat, mentioned, “As we started seizing his houses, whilst the dealer himself is absconding, he has transferred some quantity to a couple of farmers however we can be sure all their dues are paid.”
© The Indian information (P) Ltd
