New Delhi: RSS affiliate Bharatiya Kisan Sangh said on Sunday demonetisation has resulted in hardship for farmers as they are struggling to sell their produce in markets and get cash for the ongoing Rabi sowing.
“It is a 50-50 move. On one hand, farmers are happy that the black money will be taken care of. But they are also facing problems as APMC are not working properly right now,” BKS general secretary Prabhakar Kelkar told this newspaper.
He said that most of the traders in mandis where farmers are going to sell their produce are giving them old notes. “In other instances the traders are not buying the produce as they don’t have money. So farmers are facing some problems,” said Mr Kelkar.
He said that the other issue is that the rabi season has started and since cooperative banks are not doing banking, farmers are facing cash crunch to buy seeds and other products.
But Mr Kelkar said that he doesn’t believe cash crunch will hit rabi sowing and agriculture production. “In India, farmers help each other. So there will not be much impact on the rabi sowing,” he said.
Another RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch national co-convenor Ashwani Mahajan said that after demonetisation, the government needs to ensure that the black money is not generated in future.
“It is a good and a bold move. It will act as a deterrent to the creation of black money because no one stops government from doing demonetisation in the future. So in that way it will act as a deterrent,” said Mr Mahajan.
