Chandigarh. The farmers and the Punjab government may be protesting against the direct payment of the crop to the farmers, even if the agents and the Punjab government are opposing it. Farmers’ organizations themselves want that the direct payment of the crop should go to the account of the farmers. The farmer keeps the crop for four months. But the adhati not only earns more from the farmers in a month. The farmer is also exploited. The Punjab government is describing the relationship between the arti and the farmers as a nail-meat relationship. At the same time, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ugranha), the largest faction of farmers, says that the relationship between the farmer and the adhati is not of nails and meat but of melons and chhuri. It is up to the farmer to cut it.
The relationship between the farmer and the agent is not of nails and meat but of melons and knives: Ugranha
There is enthusiasm among farmers and farmer organizations about the payment of direct crop in the account of farmers by the central government. This is the reason that when the protester and himself the Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh opposed the DBT, the farmers never supported it. The leader of the United Farmers Union, who filed a petition in the High Court regarding the direct payment, Prof. Jagmohan Singh says, farmers have been demanding direct payment for a long time. For this, the door to the High Court has been knocked down.
The farmer is with the central government for this decision, but the time was not right. Doubting the timing, Prof. Jagmohan Singh says this has been done to torment the ongoing agitation against the farm bills of farmers. The government should have extended the decision of direct payment for some time. However, this decision of the central government is good.
At the same time, Joginder Singh Ugranha directly describes the farmers as melon in relation to the farmer and the agent. Whether the knife falls on the melon or the cantaloupe is cut on the knife, the melon has to. This is the reason why the government is not getting the support of farmers in the case of DBT. As was not the case with the Agrarian Reform Act.
Farmers’ organizations took to the streets after the Congress protested in the matter of agricultural legislation. Which is still sitting on the streets. At the same time, the farmer is also happy with this decision of the central government. Because the small farmer does not only sell his crop to the agent, but he has to buy a lot of things from the middle through these agents.
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