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  • Maharashtra Agriculture Minister asks other people to forestall eating onion if they are able to’t come up with the money for it

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    MUMBAI: With onion farmers and buyers up in fingers towards the Centre’s announcement to impose 40 according to cent accountability at the export of kitchen staple, cupboard minister Dada Bhuse requested other people to forestall eating onion in the event that they can’t come up with the money for to.

    The markets in Maharashtra together with Asia’s biggest onion marketplace in Lasalgaon have been close down in protest towards the central govt’s determination to impose 40 according to cent accountability at the export of onion.  The farmers stated the Centre’s determination will deliver costs of pod onion tumbling down within the home marketplace.

    By contrast backdrop, Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde camp) minister, Dada Bhuse stated that farmers will have to get first rate costs for their vegetation. “If some other people really feel the prevailing onion costs are unreasonable they will have to prevent consuming onion for the following 3 to 4 months. If they do not devour onion, not anything will occur to their well being,” Bhuse stated. 

    He additionally stated that if other people can come up with the money for to shop for a automobile, they are able to certainly come up with the money for to shell out an additional Rs 10 on kg of onion. 

    Reacting to the minister’s commentary, NCP chief Jitendra Awhad stated this govt is insensitive towards the issues confronted via shoppers and farmers.

    Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole stated the BJP-led govt is preoccupied with poaching MLAs and toppling governments and therefore it isn’t involved in regards to the other people. 

    However, farmers are curious about onion costs. Nanasaheb Patil, former chairman of the Lasalgaon Agricultural Produce Marketplace Committee (APMC) stated all the way through summer season, when the onion costs crashed, farmers have been both pressured to offload their produce at the roads or promote at throw-away costs. At the moment, no person together with High Minister Narendra Modi got here to the rescue of the farmers. Now, when the farmers are ready to get some first rate costs, the federal government has imposed an obligation at the export of onion.  This may increasingly injury the marketplace and farmers will likely be disadvantaged of having the a good value for his or her produce. 

    Minister’s tackle eating fish and Aishwarya Rai’s eyes

    Previous, tribal construction minister Vijaykumar Gavit (BJP) stirred a hornet’s nest via pronouncing Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has were given gorgeous eyes as a result of she used to devour fish incessantly. He stated youths will have to devour fish in order that it’ll assist them have honest pores and skin snd eyes like Aishwarya Rai and this is able to assist them entice the boys and girls in their selection.  

    MUMBAI: With onion farmers and buyers up in fingers towards the Centre’s announcement to impose 40 according to cent accountability at the export of kitchen staple, cupboard minister Dada Bhuse requested other people to forestall eating onion in the event that they can’t come up with the money for to.

    The markets in Maharashtra together with Asia’s biggest onion marketplace in Lasalgaon have been close down in protest towards the central govt’s determination to impose 40 according to cent accountability at the export of onion.  The farmers stated the Centre’s determination will deliver costs of pod onion tumbling down within the home marketplace.

    By contrast backdrop, Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde camp) minister, Dada Bhuse stated that farmers will have to get first rate costs for their vegetation. “If some other people really feel the prevailing onion costs are unreasonable they will have to prevent consuming onion for the following 3 to 4 months. If they do not devour onion, not anything will occur to their well being,” Bhuse stated. googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    He additionally stated that if other people can come up with the money for to shop for a automobile, they are able to certainly come up with the money for to shell out an additional Rs 10 on kg of onion. 

    Reacting to the minister’s commentary, NCP chief Jitendra Awhad stated this govt is insensitive towards the issues confronted via shoppers and farmers.

    Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole stated the BJP-led govt is preoccupied with poaching MLAs and toppling governments and therefore it isn’t involved in regards to the other people. 

    However, farmers are curious about onion costs. Nanasaheb Patil, former chairman of the Lasalgaon Agricultural Produce Marketplace Committee (APMC) stated all the way through summer season, when the onion costs crashed, farmers have been both pressured to offload their produce at the roads or promote at throw-away costs. At the moment, no person together with High Minister Narendra Modi got here to the rescue of the farmers. Now, when the farmers are ready to get some first rate costs, the federal government has imposed an obligation at the export of onion.  This may increasingly injury the marketplace and farmers will likely be disadvantaged of having the a good value for his or her produce. 

    Minister’s tackle eating fish and Aishwarya Rai’s eyes

    Previous, tribal construction minister Vijaykumar Gavit (BJP) stirred a hornet’s nest via pronouncing Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has were given gorgeous eyes as a result of she used to devour fish incessantly. He stated youths will have to devour fish in order that it’ll assist them have honest pores and skin snd eyes like Aishwarya Rai and this is able to assist them entice the boys and girls in their selection.  

  • Maharashtra: BJP ministers face farmers’ wrath over plunging onion, cotton costs

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    MUMBAI: BJP ministers in Maharashtra face the wrath of the farmers over free-falling costs of onion and cotton.

    This comes whilst a staff of Tamil Nadu farmers, led through its chief PR Pandian, started their march in opposition to the Parliament from Kanniyakumari, a couple of days in the past, urging the Top Minister to put in force his assurances all through farmers’ protest in Delhi. 

    On Sunday, indignant farmers threw onions on the car of Maharashtra deputy leader minister Devendra Fadnavis. Union minister for state and BJP Lok Sabha MP Bharati Pawar and state agriculture minister Abdul Sattar too confronted the ire of the farmers.

    The unrest amongst onion and cotton growers within the state has been escalating over plunging costs and the failure of the Centre to increase a serving to hand to the farmers in disaster. 

    Offended farmers might be observed surrounding Bharati Pawar as observed in a video that went viral on social media even because the minister attempted to appease their tempers through mentioning that the Centre has been purchasing onion via NAFED (Nationwide Agricultural Cooperative Advertising and marketing Federation of India) and ensured that there’s no ban at the export of onion as neatly. She mentioned that onion costs within the world marketplace have been down and therefore the autumn within the costs within the home marketplace. Additional, the availability of onion out there is rather prime.

    Then again, within the video, the farmers might be observed attributing the mistaken export-import insurance policies of the Centre for his or her plight. The indignant farmers argued that the Centre helps to keep converting its insurance policies repeatedly and the farmers are struggling as a result of this.

    “The Centre will have to compensate us through purchasing our onions on the world marketplace price and likewise prolong all conceivable assist to us,” the farmers insisted.

    In the meantime, Devendra Fadnavis confronted the ire of the farmers in Amaravati the place the latter threw onions at his car ahead of the police swung into motion and detained the protesters.

    ALSO READ | We are with onion farmers, says CM Eknath Shinde in Maharashtra meeting

    Maharashtra agriculture minister Abdul Sattar additionally confronted the ire of the farmers on the agricultural exhibition in Amaravati. The farmers knowledgeable him that the cost of onion has long gone down under the cost of outdated newspapers. Farmers argued that final 12 months they offered a quintal of cotton for s 14,000 however lately they get most effective Rs 8,000 in line with quintal.

    “We don’t seem to be ready to get well the enter price as neatly. If the federal government fail to assist us there’s no choice left for us however to devote suicide,” the farmers advised him. 

    As reported through The New Indian Categorical, the representatives of the Tamil Nadu All Farmers Group Coordination  Committee, set out their Delhi march from Kanniyakumari past due final week. They might trip by way of Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Vijayawada,  Hyderabad, Raipur, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Patna, Varanasi, Jaipur and Chandigarh, ahead of attaining New Delhi on March 20. The farmers are in search of, amongst different calls for, an enduring legislation for solving successful minimal make stronger value for agricultural produce yearly.

    MUMBAI: BJP ministers in Maharashtra face the wrath of the farmers over free-falling costs of onion and cotton.

    This comes whilst a staff of Tamil Nadu farmers, led through its chief PR Pandian, started their march in opposition to the Parliament from Kanniyakumari, a couple of days in the past, urging the Top Minister to put in force his assurances all through farmers’ protest in Delhi. 

    On Sunday, indignant farmers threw onions on the car of Maharashtra deputy leader minister Devendra Fadnavis. Union minister for state and BJP Lok Sabha MP Bharati Pawar and state agriculture minister Abdul Sattar too confronted the ire of the farmers.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The unrest amongst onion and cotton growers within the state has been escalating over plunging costs and the failure of the Centre to increase a serving to hand to the farmers in disaster. 

    Offended farmers might be observed surrounding Bharati Pawar as observed in a video that went viral on social media even because the minister attempted to appease their tempers through mentioning that the Centre has been purchasing onion via NAFED (Nationwide Agricultural Cooperative Advertising and marketing Federation of India) and ensured that there’s no ban at the export of onion as neatly. She mentioned that onion costs within the world marketplace have been down and therefore the autumn within the costs within the home marketplace. Additional, the availability of onion out there is rather prime.

    Then again, within the video, the farmers might be observed attributing the mistaken export-import insurance policies of the Centre for his or her plight. The indignant farmers argued that the Centre helps to keep converting its insurance policies repeatedly and the farmers are struggling as a result of this.

    “The Centre will have to compensate us through purchasing our onions on the world marketplace price and likewise prolong all conceivable assist to us,” the farmers insisted.

    In the meantime, Devendra Fadnavis confronted the ire of the farmers in Amaravati the place the latter threw onions at his car ahead of the police swung into motion and detained the protesters.

    ALSO READ | We are with onion farmers, says CM Eknath Shinde in Maharashtra meeting

    Maharashtra agriculture minister Abdul Sattar additionally confronted the ire of the farmers on the agricultural exhibition in Amaravati. The farmers knowledgeable him that the cost of onion has long gone down under the cost of outdated newspapers. Farmers argued that final 12 months they offered a quintal of cotton for s 14,000 however lately they get most effective Rs 8,000 in line with quintal.

    “We don’t seem to be ready to get well the enter price as neatly. If the federal government fail to assist us there’s no choice left for us however to devote suicide,” the farmers advised him. 

    As reported through The New Indian Categorical, the representatives of the Tamil Nadu All Farmers Group Coordination  Committee, set out their Delhi march from Kanniyakumari past due final week. They might trip by way of Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Vijayawada,  Hyderabad, Raipur, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Patna, Varanasi, Jaipur and Chandigarh, ahead of attaining New Delhi on March 20. The farmers are in search of, amongst different calls for, an enduring legislation for solving successful minimal make stronger value for agricultural produce yearly.

  • Maharashtra farmer earns simplest Rs 2.49 internet benefit on sale of 512 kg onions

    Via PTI

    PUNE: A farmer from Maharashtra’s Solapur was once in for a impolite surprise when he were given to grasp that he has earned a benefit of simply Rs 2.49 in opposition to the sale of his 512 kg onions to a dealer within the district.

    The farmer, 63-year-old Rajendra Chavan who is living in Barshi tehsil of Solapur, mentioned his onion yield fetched a worth of Rs 1 in step with kg on the Solapur marketplace backyard and finally the deductions he won this paltry sum as his internet benefit closing week.

    Chatting with PTI, Chavan mentioned, “I had despatched 10 luggage of onions weighing greater than 5 quintals to an onion dealer in Solapur on the market. However after deducting fees against loading, delivery, labour and others, I won a internet benefit of simply Rs 2.49 from him. The velocity the dealer presented me was once Rs 100 in step with quintal. The entire weight of the crop was once 512 kg and the full value he were given for the produce was once Rs 512,” he mentioned.

    “After deductions value Rs 509.51 in opposition to labour, weighing, transportation and different fees, I won a internet benefit of Rs 2.49. That is an insult to me and different onion-growers within the state. If we get such returns, how can we live on?” he requested.

    (Photograph | Ravindra Kumar Adi Twitter)

    He mentioned the onion farmers want to get a just right value for the crop and the affected farmers get repayment.

    Whilst Chavan claimed that the produce was once of excellent high quality, the dealer mentioned it was once low-grade.

    “The farmer had introduced simplest 10 luggage and the produce was once additionally of low grade. Because of this, he were given Rs 100 in step with quintal charge. So finally the deductions, he were given Rs 2 as internet benefit,” the dealer mentioned.

    He added that the similar farmer had won just right returns within the contemporary previous via promoting greater than 400 luggage to me.

    “This time he introduced the rest produce that was once hardly ever 10 luggage and because the costs have long past down, he were given this charge,” he mentioned.

    Chatting with PTI, farmers chief and previous MP Raju Shetti mentioned that the onion hitting the marketplace now could be a ‘kharif’ produce and can’t be saved for a very long time and this is why the shelf lifetime of the product is brief.

    “This onion must be bought available in the market straight away and exported out. However because of glut, the costs of onions have nosedived available in the market,” he mentioned.

    He added that this onion isn’t being bought via NAFED, so your best option is that the federal government will have to make the marketplace to be had for this ‘kharif’ onion.

    “The federal government’s export and import coverage referring to onions isn’t constant. We had two everlasting markets – Pakistan and Bangladesh, however they most well-liked purchasing onions from Iran as an alternative people because of the inconsistent coverage of the federal government. The 3rd marketplace is Sri Lanka, however we all know their state of affairs and no person is taking dangers to ship their produce,” he mentioned.

    He added that the federal government will have to purchase this onion or give subsidies to farmers.

    PUNE: A farmer from Maharashtra’s Solapur was once in for a impolite surprise when he were given to grasp that he has earned a benefit of simply Rs 2.49 in opposition to the sale of his 512 kg onions to a dealer within the district.

    The farmer, 63-year-old Rajendra Chavan who is living in Barshi tehsil of Solapur, mentioned his onion yield fetched a worth of Rs 1 in step with kg on the Solapur marketplace backyard and finally the deductions he won this paltry sum as his internet benefit closing week.

    Chatting with PTI, Chavan mentioned, “I had despatched 10 luggage of onions weighing greater than 5 quintals to an onion dealer in Solapur on the market. However after deducting fees against loading, delivery, labour and others, I won a internet benefit of simply Rs 2.49 from him. The velocity the dealer presented me was once Rs 100 in step with quintal. The entire weight of the crop was once 512 kg and the full value he were given for the produce was once Rs 512,” he mentioned.

    “After deductions value Rs 509.51 in opposition to labour, weighing, transportation and different fees, I won a internet benefit of Rs 2.49. That is an insult to me and different onion-growers within the state. If we get such returns, how can we live on?” he requested.

    (Photograph | Ravindra Kumar Adi Twitter)

    He mentioned the onion farmers want to get a just right value for the crop and the affected farmers get repayment.

    Whilst Chavan claimed that the produce was once of excellent high quality, the dealer mentioned it was once low-grade.

    “The farmer had introduced simplest 10 luggage and the produce was once additionally of low grade. Because of this, he were given Rs 100 in step with quintal charge. So finally the deductions, he were given Rs 2 as internet benefit,” the dealer mentioned.

    He added that the similar farmer had won just right returns within the contemporary previous via promoting greater than 400 luggage to me.

    “This time he introduced the rest produce that was once hardly ever 10 luggage and because the costs have long past down, he were given this charge,” he mentioned.

    Chatting with PTI, farmers chief and previous MP Raju Shetti mentioned that the onion hitting the marketplace now could be a ‘kharif’ produce and can’t be saved for a very long time and this is why the shelf lifetime of the product is brief.

    “This onion must be bought available in the market straight away and exported out. However because of glut, the costs of onions have nosedived available in the market,” he mentioned.

    He added that this onion isn’t being bought via NAFED, so your best option is that the federal government will have to make the marketplace to be had for this ‘kharif’ onion.

    “The federal government’s export and import coverage referring to onions isn’t constant. We had two everlasting markets – Pakistan and Bangladesh, however they most well-liked purchasing onions from Iran as an alternative people because of the inconsistent coverage of the federal government. The 3rd marketplace is Sri Lanka, however we all know their state of affairs and no person is taking dangers to ship their produce,” he mentioned.

    He added that the federal government will have to purchase this onion or give subsidies to farmers.