Paddy harvesting and sowing wheat is a challenge for farmers.
Faridkot
Nearly one lakh paddy bags were procured in the grain market Kotkapura according to a press note by Ashok Goel,President of Ahartia Association Kotkapura.
He said that a general house meeting of the Ahartia Association was called on Thursday and DC Faridkot was requested to allot it some time.
The DC invited the Ahartia Association and others concerned to the Procurement of paddy at his camp office yesterday.
Ashok Goel said that the DC Faridkot Vineet Kumar ordered the procurement agencies to start the procurement of dry paddy lying in the market which is about 2.5 bags.
Goel claimed that the procurement of about 1 lakh bags of paddy was started after the meeting.
The Ahartia Association demanded that the procurement and lifting should be started simultaneously which was done on the instructions of DC Faridkot.
Goel said that DFSC Faridkot Raj Rishi Mehra also ended the stage protest of the kisan unions at T point Kotkapura assuring them that there demands would be all met.
Ashok Goel said that about 2.5 lakh paddy bags of dry paddy were lying in the grain market Kotakpura for many days.
He thanked the DC Faridkot for his all kinds of assistance to speed up the procurement.
The DC further ordered the rice millers to sign the agreements with the government according to the press note by President of Ahartia Association Kotkapura Ashok Kumar Goel.
Goel said that as for the dry paddy is concerned,the farmers would not face any problem about it.
Farmers woes
Balwinder Singh from Bir Sikhan Wala and Jagmeet Singh said that there commission agents said that they unload the produce at home becasue there would be glut in market.
But again loading the paddy into trollies is a uphill task becasue of acute shortage of labour.
Small court yards also donot allow farmers to unload the paddy produce of many acres which they might have taken on lease.
Gurpreet Singh,another farmer from a Faridkot village said that he would have to wait for seven days for selling his produce since the procurement starts as there were were 27 farmers ahead of line to sell their produce.
Spending days in the grain market is just like living in hell becasue of no facilities at all.