Believing that the prosperity of the state is directly proportional to the prosperity of the farmers, the Yogi Adityanath government has chalked out a plan for benefitting the farmers at the grassroots level.
In order to provide relief to farmers engaged in horticulture, the Yogi government has proposed Rs 100 crore for Bhamashah Price Stability Fund in order to guarantee minimum price of potato, onion and tomato to the farmers, disclosed an official spokesman here on Sunday evening.
Under this scheme, the government will create the Bhamashah Price Stability Fund, which will ensure a minimum support price of potatoes, onions, and tomatoes.
Even in its Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra for the 2022 UP assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party had promised to create a ‘Bhamashah Bhav Sthirata Kosh’ (price stability fund) to ensure minimum price for all the major crops like potato, tomato, and onion.
Its direct benefit will be given to those farmers who are facing difficulties due to the negligence of the previous governments before 2017. Due to the non-availability of fair prices during the previous regimes, the farmers, who used to bring these crops to the market, were becoming indebted.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered the officials concerned to work diligently so that benefits of this scheme reach farmers. The chief minister has clearly said that no officer and employee will be spared for laxity in this work.
Now farmers will get a minimum support price through this scheme. They can keep their crop in cold storage and sell the produce at a reasonable price.