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Throwing Potato or other produce on road is a solution for Indian agriculture and farmer ?
Every year we get some news from various parts of country that farmers are throwing agriculture commodities of road. It is embarrassing that farmers produces a commodity after a lot of hard work, investment of time, money and farm inputs; after production he has not option except throwing commodity on road. Every year we read such news like burning sugarcane, throwing milk, crushing tomato, throwing potato, throwing onions, throwing vegetables.
There are two major problem behind it first unplanned cultivation and poor market price due to peak arrival. Generally, these incidents happen in perishable items, where self-life is very short in open climate conditions. Farmers start cultivation of a common commodity/ crop by seeing his/her neighbor. When climatic conditions are in favor and everything goes well then crop fruit very well and at the time of harvesting it becomes hard to find buyer. Due to poor warehousing and storage condition it becomes hard to store the commodity for longer times. He has period of three – four months to action even the govt has time to act. When things go out of control then farmer start throwing and govt starts to buy produce for throwing.
Last year in Madhya Pradesh farmers were throwing onions then govt purchased onion from farmers and stored where ever they find place to put like railway stations, schools, mandi yard. After 20-25 days onions started to decompose and there was bad odor /smell everywhere. It was hard to stand near such places where onion was laying and ultimately that onions had decompose/ thrown.
During the period of cultivation govt / farmer may act as per position of estimated production. Farmer must develop some infrastructure for himself at his farm so that he don’t need to run to nearest market just after production. At the same time govt must develop some temporary infrastructure where estimated production can be stored this infrastructure can be used also used by buyer/traders. Govt purchased onion at the rate of Rs 6/Kg and govt had to bury / destroy the onion of Rs 600 crore. This Rs 600 crore was sufficient to develop of storage facilities. After 4-5 months onions was sold in market at the price of Rs 50/Kg due to this loss.
The same thing was happened in Haryana last year. Farmers throw tomato on road after bumper production. Onion can be dried, potato can be dried, and tomato can be processed in sauce. But due to lack of complete understanding of supply chain, whole produce was destroyed.
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Every year we get some news from various parts of country that farmers are throwing agriculture commodities of road. It is embarrassing that farmers produces a commodity after a lot of hard work, investment of time, money and farm inputs; after production he has not option except throwing commodity on road. Every year we read such news like burning sugarcane, throwing milk, crushing tomato, throwing potato, throwing onions, throwing vegetables.
There are two major problem behind it first unplanned cultivation and poor market price due to peak arrival. Generally, these incidents happen in perishable items, where self-life is very short in open climate conditions. Farmers start cultivation of a common commodity/ crop by seeing his/her neighbor. When climatic conditions are in favor and everything goes well then crop fruit very well and at the time of harvesting it becomes hard to find buyer. Due to poor warehousing and storage condition it becomes hard to store the commodity for longer times. He has period of three – four months to action even the govt has time to act. When things go out of control then farmer start throwing and govt starts to buy produce for throwing.
Last year in Madhya Pradesh farmers were throwing onions then govt purchased onion from farmers and stored where ever they find place to put like railway stations, schools, mandi yard. After 20-25 days onions started to decompose and there was bad odor /smell everywhere. It was hard to stand near such places where onion was laying and ultimately that onions had decompose/ thrown.
During the period of cultivation govt / farmer may act as per position of estimated production. Farmer must develop some infrastructure for himself at his farm so that he don’t need to run to nearest market just after production. At the same time govt must develop some temporary infrastructure where estimated production can be stored this infrastructure can be used also used by buyer/traders. Govt purchased onion at the rate of Rs 6/Kg and govt had to bury / destroy the onion of Rs 600 crore. This Rs 600 crore was sufficient to develop of storage facilities. After 4-5 months onions was sold in market at the price of Rs 50/Kg due to this loss.
The same thing was happened in Haryana last year. Farmers throw tomato on road after bumper production. Onion can be dried, potato can be dried, and tomato can be processed in sauce. But due to lack of complete understanding of supply chain, whole produce was destroyed.
................. Continue ...................................
To read the complete article and further details and other information on agriculture, Please click following link and visit website.
http://www.agrotechconsultancy.in/2018/01/throwing-potato-or-other-produce-on.html