Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan transferred Bhavantar Rashi of Rs 243.58 crore of onion and garlic in the bank accounts of 61,478 farmers of Mandsaur, Neemuch and Ratlam district under the Bhavantar Yojana through laptop.
The amount has been deposited in the banks accounts during the Farmers Grand Convention and dedication/ foundation stone laying programme under the Krishak Samriddhi Yojana held at Suwasra of Mandsaur district on Wednesday. Besides, he also laid foundation stone of Suwasra-Shamgarh Micro Irrigation Project costing Rs 1662 crore. Moreover, he also made announcement for upgradation of Sitamau Degree College into PG College and for installation of life size statue of Maharana Pratap at Suwasra.
Chouhan further said that water will be supplied to the farmers’ agriculture fields through pipeline and a total of 80 thousand hectare land of 260 villages will be benefitted under the Suwasra-Shamgarh Irrigation Project. Apart from this about 45 million cubic meter pure water will be made available for 820 villages. This unique project has been brought to India after Israel and Netherland.
Chouhan mentioned that the amount has been transferred in the bank accounts of farmers of Mandsaur, Ratlam and Neemuch district on Wednesday. Amount in the farmers’ bank accounts of the remaining districts will be deposited on September 22. He further stated that Madhya Pradesh Government will give suitable support price to the farmers for soybean, wheat, paddy and all other crops.
Chouhan said that soybean will not be allowed to sell less than the price of Rs 3400 per quintal in Madhya Pradesh. Wheat will not be sold less than Rs 2,000 per quintal and suitable support price for paddy will be given to the farmers too.
Besides, the CM mentioned that farmers holding 2.5 acre land were eligible earlier under the Sambal Yojana, but now farmers holding up to 5 acre land have been made eligible by the government under the scheme.