Govt to buy Apples directly from Kashmir farmers after Complain of Losses in Lock down

In a circulate this is expected to convey cheer to farmers inside the Valley, the significant government has decided to shop for apples without delay from apple growers in Jammu and Kashmir beneath the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme.

The scheme, aimed to boost apple growers' earnings, gives direct transfer subsidies to the bank account of individuals.

"Apple to be procured from growers/aggregators at fruit mandis viz. Sopore, Parimpora, Shopian & Batengo. Special Market intervention Price Scheme for procurement of Apple in J&K; 12 Lakh Metric Tonnes of apple to be procured,” tweeted the Directorate of Information and Publicity.

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said that National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (NAFED) will lead the procurement efforts and whole the entire manner through exact state authorities companies by way of December 15. The ministry of home affairs and agriculture will oversee the easy implementation of the process.

Fruit growers, village chiefs and agricultural marketers had met Union Home Minister Amit Shah last week and raised the issue of no longer getting the proper price for his or her crop and suffering losses because of transport regulations within the Valley.

A member of the delegation, on circumstance of anonymity, had instructed CNN News18 after the assembly: "We had concerns approximately the price at which our



merchandise are getting offered. Transport has emerge as a big trouble for perishable goods like apples. This lockdown isn't always exact."

Shah had confident the delegation of locating a method to their troubles.

In a declaration, MHA stated, "Procurement may be made immediately from proper apple growers. All classes of apples, that is, A, B and C may be procured from all the apple generating districts in Jammu and Kashmir as well as detailed mandis in Sopore, Shopian and Srinagar."

The charge of the produce, officials stated, will be ensured by means of the country authorities thru direct payment within the financial institution account of the apple growers via Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT).

The state chief secretary will head the implementation and coordination committee, while a fee committee will make certain honest expenses. Officials stated that fee committee will encompass a member from the National Horticulture Board. A separate fine committee will make certain right grading of various apple sorts.

Apple grower Mohammed Ashraf Dar and his circle of relatives, which includes a 5-year-old daughter, changed into shot at by using terrorists in Sopore for defying the diktat of not doing commercial enterprise. The authorities apple procurement coverage is also being sent as a self belief-constructing measure within the Valley where citizens were suffering inconvenience due to management and civil curfew.