Trade tensions near Nagpur impact onion and cotton, affecting orange growers and cotton farmers in Vidarbha. Export policies and market fluctuations pose challenges, prompting farmers to seek alternative solutions like pulp factories amid the crisis.
Leaders, such as former MP Raju Shetti, who had played an important part in the 2020 farmers' protests, are supporting the stir but are not physically travelling to the protest site.
MahaFPC, the umbrella body of farmer producer companies (FPCs) in the state, learnt about the fraud when one of their member FPCs in Pune failed to deliver onion, procured by the government, despite repeated demand.
With politics trumping farmers’ issues, the Maharashtra Assembly Winter Session that concluded on December 20 fell short of addressing the concerns of Vidarbha’s soyabean and cotton-growing farmers, says farmer leader Vijay Jawandhia