Jhalawar : Government procurement of soybean and urad has been stopped for the last 9 days at the government counters established by Rajfed in the local agricultural produce market. In such a situation, farmers are forced to bear losses and sell soybean in open auction in the market. Soybean is being purchased by the government at the support price at the rate of Rs. 4892 per quintal, whereas due to the average price in the markets being around Rs. 4 thousand, the farmers have to pay Rs. There is a loss of Rs 800 to 900 per quintal. Urad is being purchased at the rate of Rs 7400 per quintal on support price but it is being sold in the market at Rs 5000 to 6000 per quintal. In Khanpur subdivision area, 826 farmers had registered and got tokens cut. In contrast, till now only 152 farmers’ tokens have been procured by the government. The soybean of 674 farmers is still yet to be weighed. Not a single farmer has taken token for urad. The government is to purchase 40 quintals per token from farmers. According to this, 26 thousand 960 quintals of soybean remains to be purchased from the tokenized farmers. Farmers will be able to get a profit of Rs 2.4 crore from the purchase of soybean from the remaining tokens.
the contractor pulled out
Here the procurement has been stopped for the last 9 days due to outstanding payment of Rs 1.20 crore to the contractor doing government procurement in the market on behalf of Rajfed. The contractor has outstanding dues of Rs 1.20 crore for labor and transportation since the year 2020. At present the contractor has stopped the purchase due to non-payment by Rajfed. In such a situation, farmers have been selling soybean in the market at quarter to one price for the last 9 days.
