In Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh, a farmer destroyed his soybean crop by driving a tractor because he did not get a fair price. Congress has cornered the BJP government on this issue and has raised questions on the agricultural policies of the government.
Actually, in a video surfaced on social media, farmer Kamlesh Patidar, resident of Deoria village in Mandsaur, is seen destroying the crops standing in his field with a tractor.
Sharing a video in a post on Instead of making profits, they were incurring losses.”
#Mandsaur Of #garoth A shocking, worrying development happened again! Farmer Shri Kamlesh Patidar ji #Soybeans He ran a tractor on the crop only because the market price was giving a loss instead of profit.@DrMohanYadav51 Yes,
False claims of agricultural welfare @BJP4India someone’s identification… pic.twitter.com/c5Unjzytsz— Jitendra (Jitu) Patwari (@jitupatwari) August 18, 2024
The Congress leader tagged Chief Minister Mohan Yadav and Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in the post and said that this pain is not of just one but of thousands of farmer families in the state. He further claimed that BJP has failed to fulfill its promise regarding minimum selling price (MSP) of soybean crop after coming to power.
The farmer told that he has 140 quintals of old soybean, which he has sold in Shamgarh Mandi for Rs. 3,800 per quintal. If the new price of soybean opens at Rs 3,500 to Rs 3,800 per quintal, then farmers will suffer losses. He said that 4 quintals of soybean is produced on one bigha (0.6 acre) of land. Farmer Patidar claimed that till now he has spent Rs 8,000 per bigha and till the harvest, he will have to spend another Rs 6,000 per bigha.
The farmer said, if the new price of soybean opens at Rs 3,500 to Rs 3,800 per quintal, what will we get? In view of this, I have destroyed the standing crop on 12 to 13 bighas (more than 7 acres).”
BJP spokesperson Pankaj Chaturvedi said that Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has recently highlighted the agricultural policy of the previous Congress governments. He said there has been improvement during the tenure of the BJP government, Rs 1.6 lakh crore has been distributed under the crop insurance scheme, besides direct transfer benefits and other schemes for the welfare of farmers have also been launched.
Chaturvedi said, Congress President Jitu Patwari should stop doing politics, because farmers’ issues are the top priority of the BJP government. It is solving the agricultural problems created by Congress over the years.