Similarly, the colors are also bright on the farmer’s face when harvesting and disposing of the produce. In the month of Chet, the happiness that is created in the heart of the farmer on the growth of the crop, in Baisakh, it is concentrated and comes to the front. The tide gets busy at fairs. Baisakhi festival is one such festival. In the past, Baisakhi festival was not associated with any particular religion. According to elders, before independence, all the farmers of Pakistani, beyond all distinctions, celebrated the harvest of Rabi crops. They used to express themselves and fairs were held.
The month of Chat has just ended and the colors of Baisakh are scattered in the air. But these colors are dull. The farmer’s face does not get the glow and the glow that comes from seeing the ripe crop of wheat because he is not sure when he will reap the harvest and prepare sacks full of wheat. So it will find a suitable buyer. The price of wheat in the market has fallen to Rs 2900 per maund in some areas instead of the government fixed rate of Rs 3900 per maund due to farmers selling their crop in droves. The important thing is that the benefit of this reduction in the price of wheat is not reaching the common people, the price of flour at private mills is still the same as imported wheat or domestically produced wheat entering the market. It was before. It might not have been so difficult for the government to handle the new wheat production if the large quantities of wheat had not been imported from abroad. The first thing is, what is the point of importing wheat when the domestic wheat crop is close to ripening? The problem may not be handling the new wheat, but rather the fact that there was last season’s wheat in the godowns, besides the fact that a large quantity of imported wheat was also lying around and the new crop of wheat was also coming into the market. Is Those who have taken the rash and futile act of importing wheat should be identified and then they should be asked why, how and at whose request this decision was taken. Now, it must be admitted that the reason our country has reached the point of decline at this time is because of these kinds of thoughtless and wasteful decisions. Only if there is a strict response, such pranks with the country and the people will stop in the future.
Now the danger and apprehension is that the surplus wheat which is available and which cannot be bought from the farmers and cultivators will be sold to the private sector at a low price and a good amount of it will be smuggled. will The rest will be stored and when there is some reduction in the government stocks, this wheat will be sold at high prices in the market. This will have another consequence. That this year, if the farmers do not get adequate reward for their production, next year they will not cultivate wheat at all or will cultivate less. The result of which will once again be a wheat and flour shortage crisis in the country. There should be someone who raises his voice on the mockery done to this country in the form of wheat import. A lawyer should approach the court so that those who decided to import wheat during the wheat ripening season can get some relief from them. Some of the secrets of their wisdom can be obtained from them.
Farmers are protesting because they love their soil, their land, their people and their country, but they do not get any positive response or reward for this love. Farming in Pakistan is not easy. A farmer produces crops after overcoming many difficulties and many problems and when he does not get adequate reward for his labor, he becomes broke. His confidence in the government and the system rises. How difficult it is for a farmer to grow a crop can be gauged from the fact that he does not get good yielding seed at first. Seed is also mixed, including low-yielding cheap batches. If this problem is solved, the farmers do not get fertilizer at the official rate, they have to buy it black, sometimes at double the rates. If seeds and fertilizers are mixed, water problem arises. If it rains mercifully, it is fine, otherwise they have to draw underground water from tubewells that run on electricity and diesel and use it for irrigation, which incurs huge costs because neither electricity is cheap nor petrol prices are any different. There is stability. If these three problems are solved in one way or another, the problem of pesticides comes to the fore. However, when the farmer prepares the crop, he has to face another mafia. It is a mafia of hoarders, investors and middlemen. If the government is not able to collect the full crop of the farmer, then this mafia gets the money. They buy and store crops at low prices and then charge the prices they want by creating artificial shortages in the market.