Due to the exhaustion of gunny bags, the weighing of groundnuts has stopped at four procurement centers in the area including Bikaner : Bikaner Bajju, due to which there is anger among the farmers. Farmers said that they had to monitor the fields day and night from sowing to harvesting. Now, due to shortage of gunny bags, procurement centers are forced to sit on the roadside and monitor peanuts for 2 to 3 days. Regarding the problems of the farmers, the representative visited the procurement centers Bajju, Godu and Phulasar to know about their problems. Farmers told that in this century there is a compulsion to stay awake all night on the roadside.
compulsion to monitor
Farmers told that due to absence of Bardasa, weighing is stopped and peanuts brought from far away places cannot be taken back home. They have brought peanuts in a tractor-trolley and pickup and are sitting there for 2 to 3 days to protect the grains. Due to the increasing number of destitute animals and fear of theft, the committees have to stand guard on the roadside in winter day and night. Some farmers have brought tractor-trolley, pickup etc. on rent, they are paying rent, which is causing loss. Farmers said that the peanuts of 15-20 farmers are being weighed with great difficulty at a procurement centre. In Bajju, the gunny bags ran out after Friday afternoon and at other centers weighing remained closed for three days.
so far this math
Weighing of groundnuts started from 18th November at Bajju procurement centre. In this, till Thursday, tokens of 525 farmers were issued and 21 thousand 696 bags of peanuts of 203 farmers were weighed. Godu purchase center started from 27th November. In this, out of 245 farmers’ tokens, 3669 bags of 33 farmers were weighed, in Raowala, 10 thousand 555 bags of 95 farmers out of 270 were weighed and in one PSD Phulasar, out of 254 farmers’ tokens, only 2027 bags of 18 farmers were weighed.
Borrowing did not work
Shortage of gunny bags is increasing the problems for the farmers of the area. The officials of the purchase and sale cooperative society also became worried about this. Sanwariyalal Paliwal, Chief Executive Officer of the Purchase and Sale Cooperative Society Bajju, said that 17 lakh gunny bags are required for about 15 thousand tokens, but till now hardly 50 thousand gunny bags have been received. According to the information, till now 23 thousand 500 gunny bags have been made available directly, while 15 to 17 thousand gunny bags were borrowed from some committee, but still the work did not work and now the weighing is closed.
