Farmers lay siege to trucks of paddy from other districts; Sangrur farmers 'struggle to sell their crops'

Parvesh Sharma
Tribune News Service
Sangrur, October 11

Farmers from Dhadriyan village, under the banner of Kriti Kisan Union, have laid siege to three trucks of paddy, that were purchased from Tartarn by local rice millers.

Farmers have alleged, that millers were purchasing paddy from other districts while Sangrur farmers would struggle to sell their crops.

They have announced to intensify their agitation in the coming days.

“Rice millers of our area, are bringing paddy from other districts, but they would refuse to purchase our crop, which would come after 10-15 days because till then they would purchase their all quota. We would not allow the sale of other districts’ paddy in our area, and our protest would continue till the authorities do not send these trucks back to Tartan,” said a union leader, Bhajan Singh.

He alleged, that even though many trucks had come from Tartarn, and other border districts last night, they could only capture three trucks.

“Every year the farmers of our area face problems because millers purchase paddy from other areas,” alleged another union leader, Tejinder Singh.

Punsup inspector, Kuldeep Goyal, and Markfed inspector, Pushpinder Singh, said that they had been trying to convince farmers to release trucks as legally could not stop rice millers from purchasing paddy from any part of the state.

“We have deputed cops, and trying to convince farmers. Meetings are going on,” said the SHO Longowal, Harchetan Singh.