Farmers of the district under the leadership of Chhattisgarh Progressive Farmers Organization held a check on Minimata Chowk in Pulgaon at 12.30 pm on Thursday to demand the announcement of minimum guarantee price for agricultural produce. Traffic on the Durg-Balod and Durg-Rajnandgaon routes was disrupted for about twenty minutes due to the agitation by the farmers.Farmers of Durg district staged a demonstration near Minimata Chowk demanding the implementation of minimum guarantee price for agricultural produce by the farmers organizations of the country. About three and a half hundred farmers from all over the district participated in this demonstration. The protesting farmers surrounded the square with a circle and sat on the dharna there. Traffic on the Durg-Balod and Durg-Rajnandgaon routes was interrupted due to the peasant movement. Demonstrating farmers also shouted slogans regarding demands.In Chakkajam, the convener of Chhattisgarh Progressive Farmers Organization, Rajkumar Gupta, General Secretary Jhabendra Bhushan, District President IK Verma and other officials and farmers of the organization attended. The organization s general secretary Jhabendra Bhushan Vaishnav said that there is resentment among the farmers that when the government cannot guarantee the minimum support price for the crops, why is the gimmick being stalled by the ordinance. Declaring the guarantee price.The central government s formula of fixing the support price in which 50% of the profit is being added on the cost is to give the value of the crops to the farmers, in the eyes of the farmers it is just a hoax. At the same time, the farmers expressed their displeasure at the unnecessary delay in procuring paddy by the state government. The protesting farmers said that due to the delay in paddy procurement, farmers would suffer losses due to drought and maintenance.
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Source:Nai Dunia