These days the silo of Adani Agri Logistics in Solu Majra village of Kaithal is crowded with farmers. Every farmer is coming to sell food grains. Farmers do not have to wait too long for the sale of food grains.
Everything is done in 2 hours: The entire process of grain weighing, unloading, moisture measurement and online billing takes about two hours. This whole process is done by machines. Earlier farmers had to spend the whole day selling their produce in the Agricultural Produce Market Committee or Mandis. There is a big relief in this regard. This is the reason why there are long queues of farmers outside the silos.
Government is buying In fact, Adani Agri Logistics for the Food Corporation of India (FCI) started India’s first modern grain storage infrastructure in 2007. It hired recognized grain silos at Kaithal (Haryana) to store grain. It is recognized for 20 years. Let us inform that this year, farmers associated with about 18 mandis of Kaithal and Kurukshetra districts were given this optional facility to sell their produce directly to the silos.
Actually, the government has set a target of direct procurement of 2.12 lakh metric tonnes, but the farmers of Dhand and Pundri grain markets are bringing their produce to the silos as procurement is not taking place in these mandis.
Farmers reaction: Most of the farmers are praising the arrangements in the silos and are aware that the procurement is being done by the government agencies. But they are still under the impression that the government is involving private companies in procurement to dismantle the market system.
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Vikrant Rana, a young farmer said, “Undoubtedly they are providing better facilities, but we cannot rely solely on the private sector and if the private buyers reject our produce then the farmers will be offered the market as an alternative support. There should also be a system.”