RSP draws attention of Agriculture Minister Bhusal to problems facing farmers

The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has today drawn the attention of the Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development Beduram Bhusal to problems facing farmers.

Ashok Kumar Chaudhary, head of the Agriculture Department of the RSP and member of the House of Representatives, met with minister Bhusal and submitted a nine-point memorandum to him.

The memo include the establishment of a purchasing centre at a municipality by the Food Management and Trading Company Ltd. to purchase rice produced by farmers at the support price, compensation arrangements for farmers victimized by floods and implementation of the farmers’ security fund.

“When I reached Tikapur of Kailali and listened to people’s voices there, I felt that the agriculture sector has been out of the priority of the government. The main income source of most of the citizens here is agriculture. The place is considered a pocket area for rice and banana farming. The common people do not get fertilizer on time. Neither do they get quality seeds on time nor does the government purchase agricultural produce at the set support price,” read the memo submitted to the minister.

There is a demand to carry out a probe into the spread of fake vaccine against lumpy disease in cattle, and facilitate data collection and marketing of agricultural produce produced locally, said Chaudhary.

According to him, the government’s attention has been drawn to the issues like easy loan in agriculture, the establishment of an insurance company for insurance concession and easy access, the operation of easy loan programme in collaboration with banks and financial institutions and the control of diseases surfaced in banana cultivation.