Who does not know about tomato production in Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh, the debate on tomato production is always in headlines. It is found on your food tray every day, its taste is sometimes in chutney, sometimes in salad and sometimes in your vegetable gravy. There are many vegetables that cannot even think about cooking without tomatoes. In winter, it reaches the price of Rs 200 per kg. This tomato, its sour sweet juicy flavor, looks bright red, and is now a problem for farmers.
Farmers are forced to feed the animals because of the lack of reasonable prices in the market of tomato crops produced by farmers. At present, the tomato rate for farmers in the open market is very low.
Farmers regret because of the low prices of tomatoes
The more cost is more than the harvest and transportation of this crop. Farmers take it out of the field and throw it in their vehicles and throw it on the side of the open road so that the surrounding cattle can eat it. Tomato cultivation is high in Barry Barely in Raisan district. From here, tomatoes are supplied in the big cities of Madhya Pradesh and other states of India, where there is a lot of need. But at this time, farmers are saddened by the lowest rate of tomatoes in the market. Once upon a time, the tomatoes can be used to get 100 to 150 rupees per kg, which has now reached 2 to 3 rupees per kg. When we talked to a farmer throwing our tomato crops along the road, he told us his grief.
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Hundreds of kilos of tomatoes thrown along the roadside
On the forehead of the farmers, a farmer from Raisan district rides a tractor and hundreds of kilos of tomatoes placed in his trolley along the roadside. The price of a crate tomatoes in the market is 20 rupees, and if we get 100 rupees, our cost will be released, but the tomato rate in the market is very low, so the cost of harvesting is higher than the rate we get. This is the reason why the tomatoes are thrown along the road when cleaning our fields. We cannot take it to the market at the rate we get, because the cost of transportation is high, this is our mandatory, and we are thinking of feeding this tomato to the cow’s mother.
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Talk about setting up the processing unit
District Officer of the Horticulture Department When Sharma was telephoned on the phone on the tomato crop road by the farmers of the district, they said that the farmers here were sowing tomatoes in the fields at any time. Because of this they do not get the right price for tomatoes. The administration has launched a number of projects for the benefit of the farmers, in which farmers can make a processing unit in their fields and create sauce with tomatoes and sell in the open market. But farmers did not set units. The same situation has the same situation in the district every year. At this time the rate of the market is low, which is why farmers will throw their crops on the shore. (Input of Rajesh Rajak)
