With no buyers, farmers scramble to recover costs as potatoes perish
Wholesale, spot market prices in UP lower than production costs; cold storage facilities not enough to help farmers
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It is an unending suffering for the farmers to sell their produce year after
year. Though the government asks them to
produce more, they never create proper
facilities to market the products. The
largest chilli market at Guntur wiped out the future of several farmers.
Now the potato farmers are in uncertainity. One solution is use the
vast Railway network in India to market
products like apples and potatoes during
season. Agriculture Ministry and Railway
authorities should allow farmers to
sell in railway stations in bulk packs
to passengers coming to south india.
Railways should help farmers as a social
necessity to save farmers and rheir
families from distress selling and suicides.
yogananda