Haveri
The pre-monsoon rains have been good in the district for the last one week, 75 percent of the farmers have cultivated their land, and the work of cultivating 25 percent of the land is going on. Now farmers are reaching out to farmer contact centers for sowing seeds. They are queuing up in front of the centers since early morning to get seeds. However, farmers are complaining that they are not getting seeds for sowing.
On the first day, there was no stock of groundnut seeds. Distribution work is not going on systematically. If this is the case, how is the situation of the farmers.
On one side they are giving receipt and on the other side they are giving sowing seeds. There is a situation where farmers stand for hours in the sun to get seeds. The system of giving receipt and sowing seeds at the farmer contact center is unscientific. The authorities should fix this immediately, the farmers demanded.
The officials had put up an awning so that the sun should not come during the election voting. However, farmers have to stand in the sun to get sowing seeds. Officials arrange shadowing during polling. But the authorities do not even have the common knowledge that they should provide drinking water and provide shade to the farmers who come to get seeds for sowing, the farmers expressed their indignation.
Sowing seeds are distributed only at hobli centers in the taluk. This causes trouble to the farmers and they have to stand in a rush to get the seeds for sowing. Instead, action should be taken to distribute seeds in farmers’ centers and societies under the Gram Panchayat is the demand of the farmers.
