Allow sale of veggies: Farmers

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, March 25

The Vegetable Producers’ Association has demanded from the administration to allow farmers to sell their produce on their own at designated places during the curfew.

Farmers have complained that trolleys loaded with agricultural produce were not allowed to enter the vegetable market on Wednesday and they were forcibly sent back.

“As vegetables are perishable, these will be damaged and farmers will face huge losses. It will increase the prices in the market and people will be forced to buy costly vegetables,” said association leader Lakhbir Singh Nijampura.

He added that farmers should be allowed to sell their produce at desgnated places in the city. “The administration has already devised a system to ensure regular and timely supply of medicines and milk. If the same step is taken regarding the vegetables, farmers will not have to face losses and people will get fresh vegetables at a less cost,” said Nijampura.

Another farmer Raj Bhupinder Singh said the time was now apt for sowing fresh vegetables, but farmers were not getting diesel. “If farmers fail to sow vegetables now, the prices will go up and it will be tough for the poor to buy the same,” he said.