Not a single rupee of a kilo of cabbage, the farmer turned the tractor on the cabbage crop

Patna, Ta. 15. Tuesday, December, 2020

In the midst of a farmers' agitation on the Delhi border against the new agricultural law in the country, a case of plight of farmers in Samastipur, Bihar has come to light.

A farmer here, frustrated at not getting a fair price for his cabbage, turned his tractor over on his cabbage farm. When the news spread like wildfire, people realized the plight of the cabbage farmers. Has been.

According to him, first the cabbage has to be cut by the laborers and then packed. Then it has to be delivered to the market. However, the middlemen in the market are not ready to pay even a single rupee for a kilo of cabbage.

According to the farmers, cabbage costs Rs 4,000 per acre and they are not getting even Rs 1 per kg. The farmer says this is the second time this has happened. Now I will only cultivate wheat in the field. If it went bad, only Rs 1,090 was received from the government.