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Labour scarcity has go a hurdle successful the fabric harvesting process successful Yadgir district. Due to the non-availability of labour, peculiarly women, a bulk of farmers person near fabric unpicked.
Farmers successful the territory person chosen fabric arsenic a large harvest for the kharif season. However, determination is labour scarcity arsenic farmers commencement picking fabric manually astatine the aforesaid time.
According to information disposable with the Agriculture Department, fabric cultivation has been taken up successful a higher quantum of country than the target.
It was sown successful 2,04,474 hectares against the targeted country of 1,85,999 hectares. Out of the sown area, astir 1 lakh hectare has been damaged owed to the caller rainfall and floods.
And, labour scarcity has go a hurdle successful the harvesting process.
“Each pistillate labour charges ₹200 for 4 to four-and-a-half hours of enactment to prime cotton. Instead, I hired workers connected declaration ground paying them ₹15 for picking 1 kilogram of cotton,” Vijay Kumar Gulgi, a husbandman of Satyampet village, told The Hindu.
Cotton-picking process done labour consumes much clip and this is besides 1 crushed for labour scarcity.
Machines for fabric picking are available. But farmers bash not usage machines owed to galore reasons, including the outgo they person to pay.
“A bulk of idiosyncratic farmers are tiny and the country they sow fabric successful is precise small. It volition beryllium precise costly for them to put wealth for hiring machines,” Gulagi said.
Meanwhile, the territory medication has acceptable up 29 fabric procurement centres and of them, 9 are present functioning. The remaining volition relation connected demand.
Despite procurement centres, farmers opt to spell to backstage buyers citing delays successful the registration and outgo process there.
Deputy Director of APMC Shivakumar Desai denied allegations of delay. He said that aft the online process was introduced astatine the opening of November, 20,000 farmers person already registered and outgo volition beryllium made to them successful 3 days aft procuring fabric from them.
He besides said that ₹8,110 per quintal of archetypal prime fabric and ₹7,750 per quintal of 2nd prime volition beryllium given.
Farmers are besides saying that backstage buyers spell straight to their fields and acquisition fabric making outgo connected the spot. The buyers transport fabric connected their own.
“The rates fixed by backstage buyers is ₹7,110 per quintal of archetypal prime fabric and ₹6,200 per quintal of 2nd quality,” sources said.
