Bargarh: With the price of cabbage plummeting to Rs 1 per piece, the farmers have destroyed the crop in their farmland by running tractors over it in Odisha’s Bargarh district.
According to sources, the farmers of Ganjhiatikra village under Sadar block of the district had cultivated the winter vegetable in 15 acre of land this year. With favourable weather and painstaking care, they had produced a bymper crop.
Initially the crop fetched good price from the traders and middlemen. As winter progressed, the market was flooded with cabbage from local farmers as well as neighbouring states, leading to drastic fall in the procurement price.
For the last several days, the traders have been insisting on procuring cabbage at the rate of one or two rupees per piece from the farmers. In the absence of cold storage facilities for green vegetables, the farmers are hard-pressed to store their produce.
Since the dirt cheap rate would fail to meet the input costs, the farmers destroyed their cabbage crop by running tractors over 3 acre of farmland in the village on Sunday. The rest farmers have reportedly decided to follow the step.
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