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Farmers being hoodwinked by traders: Expert
Farmers being hoodwinked by traders: Expert . The Consumer Coordination Council (CCC) chairman M Krishna Reddy said the first National Consumer Convention (NCC) would discuss about farmers’ problems and solutions under the Consumer Protection (CP) Act in India. The convention will be held in Hyderabad on September 26 and 27.
The first-ever National Consumer Convention (NCC) to be held in Hyderabad to discuss about farmers’ problems and solutions
Hyderabad: The Consumer Coordination Council (CCC) chairman M Krishna Reddy said the first National Consumer Convention (NCC) would discuss about farmers’ problems and solutions under the Consumer Protection (CP) Act in India. The convention will be held in Hyderabad on September 26 and 27.
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He said Indian farmers were incurring heavy losses by using ineffective seeds, spurious fertilizers and spurious pesticides. Because of these defective inputs, at the end of the day, farmers were losing their crops and profits and as a result, some of the farmers were resorting to suicides.
He said besides all these factors, farmers were also being cheated by agriculture equipment manufacturers, distributors, retailers and unscrupulous traders by way of supplying defective goods and deficiency of services. Bankers and insurance companies were also cheating Indian farmers in many ways, he remarked. In case of loans, savings, investments, property purchasing, electricity etc, farmers as consumers were facing many problems.
Though farmers were offering food grains and allied products in agriculture markets and other places, they were facing short weight problems by way of cheating in weighing, the ICC chairman said. He exhorted the farmers to lodge proper complaints with consumer forums at the district level, SCARF at the State-level and NCC at the national level and get sufficient compensation for their crop and other losses.
The proposed national convention will address problems faced by farmers and consumers across the country and help resolve them according to the provision of CP ACT. He said that NCC resolutions and recommendations would be sent to all the concerned Ministers, elected representatives, departments, universities and intellectuals etc. It would help bring many changes in the present Acts and policies.
It would also provide a lot of help to Indian farmers, he added. Krishna Reddy said representatives from various nations and States and from consumer forums along with several Union Ministers, officials and State government agricultural officials and civil supplies officials would participate in the convention. On the first day, Telangana State Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, Governor ESL Narasimhan and Ministers from the Centre and the State would participate in the convention.
