Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi showed his concern over poor return received by the farmers against their crops and claimed that he wanted his parliamentary constituency to convert into an agriculture hub so that fortune of the cultivators could also be changed.
“I wanted to make this area an agriculture hub and the best way is through installing food processing units as its give best price for any produce”, asserted Rahul Gandhi while showing that the farmers are the worst sufferers and only the multinationals selling processed foods were minting huge sum. He said that the farmers sell potatoes at Rs6 to Rs10 a kg but the companies sell chips for more than Rs400 so if the processing facilities has been directly forwarded to farmers their fortune could be changed in the coming days. He further said that while UP produces some famous varieties of mango, which are even exported to countries like US and Britain, the farmers who grow it get paltry returns.