Government not a rice or dal miller’: KCR’s sharp U-turn on farm legal guidelines

There is not any want for the state authorities to buy the agriculture produce as the brand new farm legal guidelines had been being carried out throughout the nation, permitting the farmers to promote their crop anyplace, stated Telangana chief minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao taking a pointy U-turn from his earlier opposition to the very legal guidelines. KCR had earlier supported the Bharat Bandh in opposition to the Centre-backed farm legal guidelines.

The announcement comes days after the CM met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and residential minister Amit Shah in Delhi. Earlier, the CM’s get together had voted in opposition to the laws in Parliament.

The choice that the method of sale and buy of agriculture produce would now be left to the market was made at a high-level official assembly convened by the CM on Sunday night.

“The government cannot do it anymore. It is not a business organisation or trader. It is not a rice miller or a dal miller. Sale and purchase are not the responsibility of the government. It is not possible to set up a purchase centre in the village from next year onwards,” learn an official assertion from the chief minister’s workplace.

During the final season, the CM’s workplace stated, the federal government had arrange buying centres within the villages and bought all of the agriculture produce on humanitarian grounds to see that the farmers wouldn’t undergo losses, on account of the coronavirus pandemic.

It stated the federal government had incurred losses to the tune of Rs 7,500 crore because of buy of paddy, sorghum, maize, pink gram, bengal gram and sunflower. Though the federal government had paid Minimum Support Price (MSP) for these crops, it needed to promote them on the decrease costs available in the market, as there was no demand for these crops.