Noida: Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait expressed dissatisfaction over the budget and said that this will not benefit the farmers at the ground level. Tikait said, “They (the Center) may like this budget on paper, but it is not going to benefit the farmers on the ground. The companies that will teach organic farming to the farmers are going to benefit from it. The farmer leader further said that if the government wants the welfare of the farmers, then it should give free electricity and water. Rakesh Tikait made this demand from the government Rakesh Tikait said that if the government wants to benefit the farmers, then the right price should be given for the crops. Farmers should be given free electricity and water. Cheap fertilizers should be given and GST on agricultural equipment should be reduced. Tikait also told that women associated with milk production are landless. There are no provisions for them. Milk prices also fell in a year. They are in the worst condition. Rakesh Tikait asked this question to the government Terming the budget as disappointing, Rakesh Tikait said what have you done for the workers working in factories? What have you done for health? Is there any plan for rural health? On the government’s plan to promote natural farming Tikait said that some company or NGO will come, take money, teach farmers natural farming and ask them to use cow dung manure. Farmers are already doing this.
Bhartiya Kisan Sangh welcomed the budget
Meanwhile, the farmers’ organization associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, welcomed the Modi government’s budget and called it a budget with priority to promote agriculture and farmer friendly and natural farming and more productivity. All India General Secretary of Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, Mohini Mohan Mishra said that Bharatiya Kisan Sangh welcomes this budget which is agriculture and farmer friendly and promotes the interests of the related sectors.
The government has given priority to higher productivity of grains and natural farming in this budget. Along with this, it has been said to give 32 new varieties of high yielding horticultural crops to the farmers according to the climate, which is a good step.
