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‘Last year the price of soybeans was Rs 4300. Per quintal. I thought I would get a higher price this time, so I planted soya beans in 10 acres, but looking at the price soya beans are being sold in the market, it seems that we will need sell the land because even the cost cannot be paid.
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This is what farmer Rakesh Parmar, who lives in Bhojpur in Raisen district, has to say. Rakesh is also involved in the movement along with those farmers who have been agitating for the last week to increase the support price of soya beans. 6 thousand. Demanding to be done. For this, Kisan United Front has been formed. Farmers give a memorandum to the responsible ones in the tehsil and the districts.
He also says that the price available 5 years ago was the same while the cost had doubled. How will farmers benefit from increasing the support price? What is the government’s position on this? How much does it cost to plant a soybean crop and how much profit does the farmer get? Dainik Bhaskar understood this whole issue from experts and farmers in the middle of the farmers’ movement. read the report
How did the farmers’ movement begin?
Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait wrote a letter to the Union Agriculture Minister
Farmer leader and national spokesperson of Bharatiya Kisan Union Rakesh Tikait had written a letter to Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on August 29, demanding to increase the price of soybean to Rs 6,000. Tikait had written in the letter that the government has fixed the support price of soybean at Rs 4850 per fifth.
In Madhya Pradesh markets, soybeans are bought between Rs 3500 per fifth and Rs 4 thousand per fifth, while the cost to the farmer is Rs 15 to 20 thousand per acre of soybeans. Soybean prices have not increased for many years.
After this letter, Madhya Pradesh farmers started a campaign on social media to increase the support price of soybeans. The Kisan United Front was formed. After this, it was decided that farmers in soybean production areas would submit a memorandum at district and tehsil level.
Rakesh Tikait wrote a letter to Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on 29 August.
Digvijay released a video, farmers gave a memorandum to Shivraj
On the same day Rakesh Tikait wrote a letter to Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, former CM and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijay Singh released a video on social media saying that farmers are not getting the price of soybeans.
Digvijay said that even till the government increases the support price, farmers should boycott the BJP membership drive. Farmers also gave a memorandum to Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, who arrived in Ganjbasoda on September 2, raising the support price of soybeans to Rs 6,000. Ask to do it in fifths.
Regarding this issue, former CM Kamal Nath, PCC President Jitu Patwari, Leader of Opposition Umang Singar posted on social media platform X about increasing MSP.
Former CM Kamal Nath also demanded an increase in soybean MSP on social media platform X on September 4.
Bharatiya Kisan Sangh also gave support
Bharatiya Kisan Sangh also supported the farmers’ movement. The union decided that a memorandum will be given in all tehsil offices between September 5 and September 10. After this, between 16th and 18th September, memorandums will be given in the district headquarters regarding raising soybean prices. If the government does not agree, the outline of the movement will be prepared at the state level.
Now know in three points why there is demand to increase the support price.
1. Market price less than support price
In fact, the soybean crop will hit the market next month. At present soybean costs Rs 3800 in the market. to Rs 4200. It is bought at the rate of a fifth. While the government has fixed the support price of soybean at Rs 4892. per fifth Rs. Decided. That means that soybeans are bought in the market at a lower price than the BPA.
This time there has been a tremendous production of soya beans, so the farmers are worried that the prices will fall further when the crop comes up for sale in the market.
2. Small difference between costs and profit
If the rate at which soybeans are bought in the market remains the same, then there will be very little difference in the cost and profit of the farmers. Some farmers will not even be able to get the money for the cost. When Bhaskar spoke to farmers about this, they said that the prices of everything from pesticides to seeds have increased in the last decade. The cost of the crop increases every year, but the prices are not the same.
Naresh Mewada, a resident of Bilkisganj, Sehore, while giving his account, says that this time I planted soybean crop in 20 acres. The yield is expected to be between 4 and 5 five years in one acre. But this time because of the weather the soybeans are turning yellow. In such a situation, more pesticides had to be sprayed.
Naresh said that about 6 to 7 thousand rupees are spent on pesticides in one acre. It costs money. On a ten acre basis, so far I have spent about Rs 70 thousand only on pesticides. I have spent. Also, if we look at the costs from sowing to harvesting the crop, it is around Rs 18-19 thousand in one acre. It costs money.
3. Compulsion of farmers to sell crops in the market
Bhojpur farmer Lakshminarayan Parmar says the farmer is forced to sell his crop in the market because the government is not buying soybeans at the support price. Large farmers stock their crops but this is not possible for small farmers.
This time the farmer will not be able to stock the crop even if he wants to. Because the crop turns yellow due to the weather. The farmer would like his crop to be sold because he has to pay money to many people. Even if the crop is sold for Rs 2000 only, it will have to be sold.
Mahendra Mewada says that if we take the crop grown in the same field to the market with two different tractors, then the trader charges different prices for both. Rakesh Parmar is worried that if crop prices remain the same, the land will need to be sold because there is no alternative to soybeans.
Understand from experts what the benefit of increasing BPA will be
The farmer’s leader, Kedar Sirohi, says that we have conducted a survey of 90 thousand soybean farmers. One thing that resulted from this is that every farmer earns Rs 4 thousand per fifth of production. Is the expense. The current market rate equals the cost. In such a situation, farmers have no benefit from soybeans. If the ASA of the government is Rs 6 thousand. If it is, then competition will increase in the market. Market traders will also have to raise prices.
Scientist BU Dupare of the Indian Soybean Research Institute, Indore says that soybean is an international crop. Our share in this is only 3%. The production in America and Argentina is 6 times more than ours. Soya beans are exported extensively to European and Gulf countries.
90% of the deoiled soybean cake produced in the country, which is its by-product, was exported, and 10% of the soybeans were kept for seeds. Soybean prices depend on the international market, its domestic consumption is very low. Its use has increased in recent years, but not so much that farmers can control the market price.
Expert said – Soybean prices fell due to import duty on palm oil
The farmer’s leader, Kedar Sirohi, says that soybean oil production in the country is 17-18 percent. Now palm oil is increasingly used instead of soya bean oil. Earlier the import duty on palm oil was 35 percent, now it is 5 percent.
The government should increase the import tax on palm oil. The way the government reduces the import tax, it seems that it promotes the farmers of America, Argentina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brazil and ignores the farmers of the country. This is also a big reason behind farmers not getting the right price for soybeans.
The Agriculture Minister said – If calling farmers can be justified then we will tell the Union Minister
Farmers are agitating to increase the support price of soybeans, while Madhya Pradesh Agriculture Minister Andal Singh Kansana says no such campaign has been started in MP. Madhya Pradesh is number one in the country in terms of soybean production. This has upset the Congress.
The Congress itself is provoking the farmers. Those who claim that the Minister does not give time for a meeting, then they are people with the mentality of the Congress.
I did not receive any call from any farmer leader regarding this matter. Kansana said that even if a farmer is pricked by a needle, the government feels the pain. Madhya Pradesh has become a soy state today only because of the farmers.
Now know how Madhya Pradesh became a soy state
Scientist BU Dupare of the Indian Soybean Research Institute, Indore, says that soybean cultivation started in Madhya Pradesh in the seventies. At the time soybeans were cultivated in an area of ​​30 thousand hectares.
He says that the Oilseeds Association played the most important role in connecting farmers and the market in MP. Seeing the interest of farmers in soybeans, an industry started around Indore, but the production was much less than the demand of the industry.
In such a situation, industries also started promoting soybeans. The result was that soybean cultivation started in 100 lakh hectares in the 90s. MP introduced the success model to the country first, after which other states followed it.
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