The percentage of farmers benefitting from the Chhattisgarh government's paddy purchase at the support price is expected to cross 98 percent this year.
Due to the farmer-friendly policies of the government, not only the acreage of agriculture has increased in the state in the last two years, but the people who had abandoned farming as a non-profit business returning to it.
In Chhattisgarh, 76 percent of the farmers sold paddy on MSP in 2017, after the Bhupesh Baghel government took office. The figure reached 92.61 percent in 2018 and 94.02 percent in 2019.
This year, 248,171 new farmers have registered and so this figure is expected to cross 98 percent.
Paddy procurement has started in Chhattisgarh on support price from December 1. A total of 21,29,764 farmers have registered to sell paddy in the state. The area under which paddy is sown is more than 27,59,385 hectares.
Considering the number of farmers registered to sell paddy this year and the area under paddy production, the farmers benefiting from support price are estimated to be higher than last year.