"Mai sarkari khareed kendra pe nahi jata hoon, wahan jane ka kya faiyda? Yeh sarkari kendra hamare liye nahi hain, wahan paise walon ki hi pooch hoti hai aur loot machi rahti hai. Hum apni fasal khule bazar me bechte hain."
-Putti Lal
A marginal farmer of village Manna, Mirzapur, UP
‘I never sell my produce (agricultural) at Government Purchase Centres. What is the benefit going there? There are corruptions rampant all over. These centres are not for us but those who are rich gets benefited out it. We sell our produce in open market.’ Says Putti Lal.
In fact Putti Lal is not the only farmer who finds that selling his agricultural produce at the Government run Purchase Centres would not bring him any benefits of much hyped minimum support price declared by the state and central governments. Ramratan of village Khilwai, Meerut
It is unfortunate that after spending huge amount of funds, considerable time and labour in forming several task force, committees and planning, Govt has failed to make any distinction between a big farmer and a subsistence farmer in terms of the policies and approaches. Except for the statistical purposes that small and marginal farmers constitutes about 90% of the total farmers of the state, these poor and underprivileged farmers communities who largely depends on the small pieces of lands for livelihood, finds no place in any policy documents that could reflect that the Govt is sensitive towards their problems. There could be find no standard set of policies, rules and practices to which the marginal farmers are or should be subject to. Hardly any official document of Govt could spell out the steps to be taken for safeguarding the interests of the largest contributors to the countries’ grain basket.
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