A farmer in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit dumped 10 quintals of his cauliflowers on the road as he was angry with the price that licensed traders offered him for his cauliflowers at Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC), Pilibhit. Farmer dumped all his produce on road to let the needy persons collect it for their home without any charge.
The farmer who did this was from Jahanabad town and his name is Mohammad Saleem. Saleem was offered Rs 1 per kg for his produce by the traders which would only pay his transportation cost to bring his produce to the APMC campus.
“I have half an acre of land where I had cultivated cauliflower and spent around Rs 8,000 on seeds, cultivation, irrigation, fertilisers, etc. In addition, I had to bear harvesting and transportation costs worth Rs 4,000,” Saleem told Times of India.
“The retail price of cauliflower at present is Rs 12 to 14 per kg and I was expecting at least Rs 8 per kg for my produce. When I was offered a mere Re 1 per kg, I had no option but to throw away all my produce to save the transportation cost to bring it back home,” he added.
