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Selling vegetables at the vegetable market.
Selling vegetables at the vegetable market.
Jind: The commission officials on Wednesday decided to go on strike to protest against the hike in market fees by the Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board due to which the vegetable market remains closed. There will be no buying and selling of vegetables and fruits in the vegetable market, which may cause problems for vegetable farmers. Commission officials say they will be forced to surrender their licenses if the government does not roll back the increased fees. The market committee will suffer loss of revenue due to the strike by vegetable market commissioners. Apart from vegetable producing farmers, vegetable sellers and common people will also face problems.
Brokers say there was no market fee from 2014 to 2020. In 2020, the government had decided to charge one percent market fee from the brokers and one percent for the Haryana Rural Development Fund. At the time it was said that the cause was Covid. Now the government has increased market fees by 40 percent from October 1st. On December 13, a delegation of commission agents met the chief administrator of the Haryana Agricultural Marketing Board regarding the abolition of market fees, but the latter did not give a satisfactory response. A notification has been issued stating that vegetable market brokers will have to pay advance fees from April 1, 2024 and increase it by 10 percent every year, which is completely wrong.
The vegetable market generates a turnover of around 1.25 crores every year
Every year, the market committee earns revenue of around Rs 1.25 million from both items from Jind Vegetable Market. On an average, the market committee makes a daily turnover of around Rs 50,000 to Rs 60,000 from both items in the vegetable market. Due to the closure of the vegetable market by commission agents, not only the government will lose revenue but the farmers producing vegetables will also face problems.
Farmers from dozens of villages come to sell vegetables at the vegetable market.
Farmers from the city and dozens of surrounding villages come to the vegetable market to sell their vegetables. There are some farmers who pick vegetables for wages. Due to the closure of the vegetable market, farmers cannot bring their crops to the vegetable market. Even those who work as vegetable farmers will not be able to find work. When the vegetable market is closed, farmers are left with the option of selling vegetables outside. However, the brokers have appealed to farmers not to bring them to the vegetable market on December 20.
Mohit Gumber, head of the Vegetable Market Commission Association, said he met the chief administrator of the marketing board to protest against the increase in market fees, but he has not heard anything from the commission agents. A warning was then issued to close the vegetable market on December 20th. If the government does not accept their demands, the vegetable markets will be closed indefinitely, for which the government will be responsible.
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