On crop procurement e-way in Haryana, lengthy watch for farmers, behind schedule cost

Farmers thrash paddy at Shahpur village of Raipur Rani. (information picture by means of Jaipal Singh)

For the closing 5 days, Aman Rana and his father were tenting on the Barwala Mandi in shifts, taking duty of defending their 350 quintals of paddy harvest as they look ahead to for his or her cell phone to beep with a message, informing them of the date when govt procurement businesses will choose up their produce.

Rana had registered on-line, by means of the e-Khareed (Haryana) within the closing week of September, to promote his produce. He had gained a confirmatory message however is but to obtain the any other one with the pickup date.

Even if the Panchkula district management claims of getting procured 90 in keeping with cent of the harvest, numbers accessed from the Haryana State Agricultural advertising and marketing Board display an opening of no less than 20 in keeping with cent exists between the whole harvest registered on-line and the volume procured by means of the federal government.

Whilst 7,252 paddy farmers of Panchkula have registered 32,736 acres of land by means of the portal, which kind of quantities to a pick-up of roughly 10 lakh quintals of paddy, the district government have procured most effective about 8.Three lakh quintals as on Thursday.

The whole procurement closing 12 months right now stood at greater than 10.27 lakh quintals.

In the meantime, the state is but to make bills to those that were fortunate sufficient to get their produce picked up by means of the federal government. As in keeping with an authentic of the state agricultural advertising and marketing board, “No bills haven’t begun been made to any farmers in Panchkula. Only a few quantity used to be launched to the Panchkula marketplace committee until October 3. We have no idea what’s inflicting the prolong in bills, such choices are made at govt ranges,” he mentioned. The HAFED is claimed to have launched most effective Rs 5.75 crore, which is but to be credited into the accounts of the farmers.

Whilst the creation of self-dependence via web sites has been a welcome transfer, farmers are nonetheless making an attempt to deal with the brand new strategies. All villages, that have mandis now have no less than one devoted cyber cafe, which is being utilized by farmers only to check in their produce at the govt web site.

PK Das, Further Leader Secretary for Meals, Civil Provides and Shopper Affairs, bats for the net device. “It has 3 elements. The first actual is registration by means of farmers that informs us of the crop he has planted and its acreage.

We check it to be sure that he has if truth be told cultivated what he’s claiming. Then we agenda the farmer to return to a mandi on a selected date. Previous, farmers would swamp the mandis and it used to take them days to promote their produce. Now that we understand how many farmers are being known as to mandi, the logistics preparation to fulfill the coming is done previously. On the mandi, the procurement itself is finished by means of an e platform. Ranging from gate-pass to public sale and the dispatch to warehouses, the whole lot is finished via e-khareed, which is on the market to the purchasing company, advertising and marketing committee and purchasing agent dealing with the farmer’s produce,” he mentioned.

The farmers, alternatively, aren’t inspired.

“The guide device used to be a lot more straightforward. You harvest your produce as and whilst you deem are compatible, take it to the mandi and promote it off. The arhtiya (fee agent) would pay then you and there with none bother of ready round for the bills to return from the federal government. With the present regime, the place dates are given to you upfront, farmers were the entire extra pressured. From time to time the gadget you hire out for chopping the plants is unavailable, different occasions you pass over the closing date as you might be out of the town amongst different causes. This timeline has created troubles nobody has answers to. Additionally, even after giving out the produce to the federal government, farmers have now not were given a unmarried rupee credited to their accounts,” says Narinder Singh, pradhan of farmers from Barwala space of Panchkula.

This hole between state farmers and a web based governance has created a lot bother for the ones watching for cost for his or her plants. Ramesh Chand, proudly owning nearly 20 acres of land in village Parvala of Raipurrani had passed over his produce on the Raipurrani mandi nearly 3 weeks again however is but to obtain his due cost. Within the interim, the farmer has needed to take cash on mortgage to sow the following produce. “I had waited for cost for just about per week ahead of taking it on mortgage from an arhtiya. I wouldn’t have any choices. I’d have misplaced treasured time in sowing potatoes. I’m nonetheless looking forward to the federal government to pay for my produce,” Chand mentioned.

The prolong comes regardless of assurances from the Centre in regards to the cost of produce inside of 3 days of procurement.

The sluggish procurement is any other issue that has left the farmers of the world dejected. Om Prakash (58), a farmer who hails from Batour village of Barwala has been sitting on the mandi for greater than per week now. “I used to be to start with advised that moisture content material within the produce used to be too prime. It took me 3 to 4 days to dry it off. Since then, I’ve been sitting right here. The arhtiya tells me that there’s some factor within the registration of plants for the reason that web is distributing most effective restricted selection of parchis (slips).”

Das makes it transparent that “registration does now not imply that on every occasion you flip up, you’ll get a gatepass”. The senior officer mentioned that registration must be adopted by means of scheduling and thus relying at the capability of mandi, farmers are invited on specific days via SMS. “Best the ones farmers are meant to cross to mandi. Once they achieve mandi, they’re issued default gate cross on the gate. If someone turns up with out invitation and we entertain them, then everyone else would get started attaining mandis with out following the agenda, defeating the entire objective,” he added.

On prolong in bills, he mentioned that the the federal government had promised to transparent the dues inside of 3 days of the approval of the i-form or the acquisition report. “The acquisition type will get authorized inside of 4 days from the date of acquire. So, by means of the 7th day, we make the bills. We’ve already cleared dues upto October 10”, he mentioned.

Das accredited that the federal government is working overdue by means of a couple of days in clearing the dues, however added that “we’ve additionally promised the farmer, that we can pay hobby for the times the cost is behind schedule”.

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