Wheat import .. threat to the forming community.

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Hi all,

I was watching TV, yesterday and saw the news about the wheat import to our country. It is learnt that India has imported wheat from Australia. The quality of the wheat is a concern as it doest seem to be good as it is containing lots of weeds that are banned in INdia.

Also it is claimed that the wheat is not fit for human consumption. This is a serious threat to the farmers in India and a states like Haryana, Punjab and UP can be seriously hit if the government promotes this practise.

It was learnt that the country was short of wheat, so they did that. OK agreed !!, but at what cost .. they have paid more than the govt pays Indian farmer, approximately Rs 8000, per ton. If I am not wrong the govt. offers our Indian farmers Rs 7000, which is definately a question to be answered.

Though it was important to buy wheat, the question is still that why is the govt. not increasing the prices for Indian farmers and encouraging them and getting them equipped with the latest techniques.

I am sure someone is making a fortune out of this keeping aside the interest of Indian farmers.

I am not sure but i think this a topic we need to discuss.

So put in your thoughts.....
http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?category=National&slug=Controversy+hits+wheat+import&id=87465

Regards
Vinod
 
Reason for Govt's apathy towards farmer

According to me reason for this is people like us don't want to react.
Look this thread has been posted yesterday and so far no comments has been posted on this. Who has time to put comments on such threads but most of us are very eager to post our views on threads like kiss or not to kiss or on Mallika :)

We all belong to farming community but as of now most of us are not involved in farming so we don't have any interest.

Apart from the price difference quality of the imported wheat is not good.
Once we imported wheat from America and still congress grass ( it came along with that wheat) is a problem for us.

We have so much surplus wheat that govt agencies are sometimes not able to procure still Govt need to import wheat,there is something fishy.

Oneday I went to buy mustard seeds, bought 110gm packet for Rs 10 but when I went home I was told that farmers had sold it at 1700-1800 Rs per Quintal.
Imagine how we are exploited.

Every Govt is anti farmer, reason is being that our community is not coming together to oppose such moves. There is law of survival of the fittest.

No one is going to help us out. We have to stand for our rights. God help those who help themselves.
 
priyasingh said:
According to me reason for this is people like us don't want to react.
Look this thread has been posted yesterday and so far no comments has been posted on this. Who has time to put comments on such threads but most of us are very eager to post our views on threads like kiss or not to kiss or on Mallika :)

We all belong to farming community but as of now most of us are not involved in farming so we don't have any interest.
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I agree with what Priya has commented. Truly speaking, most of us (Jatlanders) have in a way lost touch with village culture and subjects such as this look boring to them. Young ones throw tons of comments on subjects like "kissing", "hide identity", Mallika Sehrawat and so on. I have put a thread yesterday in this very forum : Problems of school admissions in India : a burning topic - no responses so far and I do not think most of the members visit the site to exchange views on social issues - but visit here just for fun !

After globalisation, the plight of Indian farmers has gone from bad to worse. While the West gives heavy subsidies to their farmers, in our country the situation is contrary to that. Once Chaudhary Charan Singh had said that a tablet of APC gives relief from headache - but the Agriculture Prices Commission (APC) causes more headache to Indian farmers than relief !
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Very True ..Priya... Well Jatlanders ko KILKI maarne se fursat mile to woh soche na ....


priyasingh said:
According to me reason for this is people like us don't want to react.
Look this thread has been posted yesterday and so far no comments has been posted on this. Who has time to put comments on such threads but most of us are very eager to post our views on threads like kiss or not to kiss or on Mallika :)

We all belong to farming community but as of now most of us are not involved in farming so we don't have any interest.

Apart from the price difference quality of the imported wheat is not good.
Once we imported wheat from America and still congress grass ( it came along with that wheat) is a problem for us.

We have so much surplus wheat that govt agencies are sometimes not able to procure still Govt need to import wheat,there is something fishy.

Oneday I went to buy mustard seeds, bought 110gm packet for Rs 10 but when I went home I was told that farmers had sold it at 1700-1800 Rs per Quintal.
Imagine how we are exploited.

Every Govt is anti farmer, reason is being that our community is not coming together to oppose such moves. There is law of survival of the fittest.

No one is going to help us out. We have to stand for our rights. God help those who help themselves.
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Good Jod Vinod

Thanks for raising the issue Vinod.

Farmers in India are exploited by the government just the same way as they were by MAHAJANS back in times. I think "someone" needs to answer questions but why would anybody answer the questions if we discuss these things on this on any other Forum ????? With over 4000 members what does it matter if we post "kilkii" posts or raise serious issues if we are not harnessing this strength???
 
no deswal sir..

its nt so..
v go thru all d posts- bt r unable 2 reply sumtimes coz..i feel v r unable 2 express our views as v r unawre f d topics-- like dis- of farming n seeds
so, v just wait 4 d more enlightened persons to reply:)
dndeswal said:
I agree with what Priya has commented. Truly speaking, most of us (Jatlanders) have in a way lost touch with village culture and subjects such as this look boring to them. Young ones throw tons of comments on subjects like "kissing", "hide identity", Mallika Sehrawat and so on. I have put a thread yesterday in this very forum : Problems of school admissions in India : a burning topic - no responses so far and I do not think most of the members visit the site to exchange views on social issues - but visit here just for fun !
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Agree with Priya and Deswal ji word by word.

We have to see the machanism of this exploitation by APC and find out who are the persons responsible for it.

It is time to act.

Forget IT alone can help our jat brothers.They can't come out of this circle of poverty untill agriculture is made profitable option.

I doubt shortage of food stock at all was there,infact this whole thing is just about making money at the cost of our brothers doing farming.
 
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