Has Haryana govt ‘banned’ procurement of paddy in 12 districts as a result of it’s ‘conspiring’ towards farmers? How Congress misled

The President of Haryana Pradesh Congress made sure allegations towards the BJP led Haryana authorities. Kumari Selja accused the ML Khattar authorities of conspiring towards the farmers of the state and ‘banning’ the procurement of paddy from the farmers in 12 districts. She alleged that this was a conspiracy by the Haryana authorities in order that ultimately, it might implement the farm legal guidelines and cease authorities procurement altogether, so the farmers must promote their paddy to personal gamers at throwaway costs.
Kumari Selja mentioned that the federal government ought to cease its anti-farmer conspiracies and begin procuring paddy at Minimum Support Price (MSP) from the farmers, insinuating that no procurement of paddy had occurred, that the federal government had maliciously “banned” all procurement in 12 districts and that the farmers weren’t getting MSP.
According to Times of India, she made a blanket assertion that the federal government had stopped procurement of paddy within the state.
However, as has been the norm, the assertion of Kumari Selja will not be correct.
According to authorities sources, within the meals secretaries assembly held on seventeenth August an estimate of procurement of 40.00 LMT rice (59.70 LMT paddy) had been mounted throughout Kharif Marketing Season 2021-22 within the Haryana area.
YearProduction (Fig. in LMT)(In phrases of Rice)Procurement (Fig. in LMT)(In phrases of Rice)Procurement (Fig. in LMT)(In phrases of Paddy)Total MSP worth (Fig. in Cr.)
KMS 2015-1641.4528.6142.706191.5
KMS 2016-1744.5335.8353.528075.48
KMS 2017-1845.2339.9259.589473.22
KMS 2018-1945.1639.4158.8310412.91
KMS 2019-2048.2443.0764.2911795.38
KMS 2020-2144.2537.8956.5510676.64
KMS 2021-2244.9135.5753.0810405.56

The above desk signifies the quantity of paddy procurement by the federal government towards the manufacturing of paddy in Haryana over the previous couple of years. It additionally signifies the MSP paid to farmers within the state of Haryana.
As could be seen, within the present 12 months, a amount of about 53.08 LMT paddy (35.57 LMT rice) out of whole arrival of 53.57 LMT paddy has been procured in Haryana as much as tenth November 2021 towards the estimate of procurement of 59.70 LMT paddy (40.00 LMT rice), as clarified by the federal government.
While Kumar Selja is alleging that the Haryana authorities has “banned” paddy procurement, the federal government has already procured 89% of the estimated paddy procurement for the 12 months 2021-2022 (53.08 LMT paddy out of 59.70 LMT paddy) on the MSP of Rs. 10405.56 crores.
As per the Advance Estimates for KMS 2021-22 launched by the Department of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, GOI, within the case of Haryana, the realm below cultivation for paddy crop is 13.10 Lakh Hectare and the corresponding manufacturing of Kharif paddy by way of rice has been estimated as 44.91 LMT (67.02 LMT paddy).
As per information of Dept. of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Govt. of Haryana, a complete of 15.11 Lakh Hectare space is below cultivation of paddy throughout KMS 2021-22 and estimated manufacturing of rice can be about 51.35 LMT (76.64 LMT paddy). 
It is to be famous that the distinction within the estimate will not be arbitrary. Procurement estimates are mounted primarily based on the manufacturing information (advance estimate) revealed by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, GOI. Since there’s a distinction between manufacturing estimates of State Govt. of Haryana and Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, GOI, State Govt. is required to reconcile the manufacturing information with Agriculture Ministry. 
The central authorities and the state authorities of Haryana have labored collectively within the current previous to make sure that the estimates are reconciled so the procurement course of will not be hampered.
On the third of November 2021, the paddy procurement course of was reviewed by the State and the Central authorities. During the evaluate course of, it was discovered that in a number of procurement centres, not a lot paddy was incoming and subsequently, it was much more open to manipulation and malpractice.
In mild of this, the central authorities had despatched the next communication to all Deputy Commissioners (DC) and District Food & Supply Controllers (DFSC) of paddy procuring districts:
The DCs have been requested to adequately estimate the quantity of paddy that was left within the area and with the farmers to then correct estimate how a lot paddy can be coming into their respective procurement centres. They have been additionally instructed to guage which procurement centres would must be operated from the eighth of November as much as the fifteenth of November when the procurement would happen for the KMS. After the evaluation was completed, it was the DCs and the DFSCs who had determined to shut 47 out of 199 procurement centres in 12 income districts.
It can subsequently be seen that the 47 procurement centres in 12 districts have been closed not as a result of the state authorities had a grudge towards the farmers however as a result of after nearly 90% of the procurement was completed out of the estimated paddy procurement, the 47 centres weren’t getting sufficient paddy coming into the centre for procurement.
If the federal government was certainly hatching a “conspiracy” towards the farmers and had “banned” paddy procurement within the state of Haryana, the federal government wouldn’t have procured paddy price Rs 10405.56 crores (MSP) and nearly 90% of the estimated paddy procurement already.
Similar allegations had surfaced in Telangana: Politics above details
On the tenth of November, the Agriculture Minister of Telangana made sure allegations towards the central authorities. Targeting Union Minister G Kishan Reddy, Niranjan Reddy requested if the central authorities was going to acquire paddy, insinuating that there was no plan of the govt. to take action. 

On November 11, the Government of India refuted the claims of S Niranjan Reddy, Agriculture Minister, Telangana. It mentioned that the paddy procurement below the Central pool had elevated almost 3 times previously three years. As per the stats offered by the federal government, within the 2017-18 season, the Centre procured 36 LMT of paddy that was elevated to 52 LMT in 2018-19, 75 LMT in 2019-20 and 95 LMT in 2020-21.
The Centre mentioned that throughout the Rabi crop of KMS in 2020-21, 62.80 LMT rice was procured by the State. 24.75 LMT rice was deposited by the federal government within the type of parboiled rice, whereas the remaining was deposited as uncooked. The state authorities had requested to extend the parboiled rice goal to 50.75 LMT from 24-75 LMT as surplus inventory below Centra Pool.
However, the central govt already has 3-years price of inventory of parboiled rice with FCI. Still, the central authorities permitted further procurement of 20 LMT of parboiled rice to FCI for KMS 2020-21 and the remaining as surplus in uncooked.
The authorities additional added that the State of Telangana has set a procurement goal of 40 LMT for KMS 2021-22, which is 26.78% greater than the earlier Kharif season of 2019-20. The State has additional requested the Centre to reinforce the goal throughout KMS 2021-22, which is into consideration as there have been discrepancies within the estimated manufacturing by State Govt. and Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture, GOI.
The Congress get together has been deceptive farmers concerning the Farm Laws launched by the Central Government and fanning the “farmers protest” that has repeatedly resulted in violence. These statements by Kumari Selja appear to be a continuation of the propaganda by the Congress get together the place details are disregarded to sow seeds of discontent the place she not solely lied concerning the farm legal guidelines (because it doesn’t ban procurement at MSP) but additionally misled concerning the developments in Haryana.