TAD News Desk, New Delhi: Between the ongoing protests of farmers on the central government’s new agriculture legislation, UP government has set-up 5,000 warehouses for farmers to store their produce safely and eventually acquire the right price for their crops. The construction plan of one warehouse per ten villages has been envisioned.
The proposed scheme would cost around 2,500crore rupees and it would increase the storage capacity of the state by 8.6 lakh tonnes. This plan would benefit farmers in two ways – first, it would be easy for them to protect their agricultural produce during rain, fire and other natural calamities and secondly, farmers can sell their produce at higher rates as preservation of crops would protect them from rotting.
The lingering issue of preservation leads to instant selling of the farmers’ produce and it has to be done at the rates of the mandi. Hence, as a consequence of the same, they are unable to wait for better prices.
Officials said that these warehouses would help in increasing the farmers’ income as well as it would open the employment avenues to rural youths. It would be in the propects of caretaker, accountant, security personnel and supervisors.
At a time when protests by the farmers in an optimal rise against the three agricultural bills passed by the central government, these warehouses has come as a shield to protect the produce till a solution is sought upon it.
Source: Krishi Jagran
