Farmers in the field, plucking vegetables Photo: Ravi Kumar |
They are plucking 'Bhindi or Okra' with hand wrapped in polythene sheets. Photo: Ravi Kumar |
Now it comes to the plucking of the vegetables and sending them to the local market. It is also not an easy task. Since we reach vegetable market at about 6:30 in the morning, farmers have to reach there before this time. Generally they go to the field before dawn about 4:30 AM. Both men and women work there. Plucking of vegetables is not easy. There is always a danger of snake and insect bite due to low visibility. Some vegetables have thorns for example eggplant. Some have itching effect on the bare skin, for example ladyfinger (Bhindi, Okra or Ramtorai). Farmers have to cover their hand to pluck them. Since the can not afford buying hand gloves, the cover their hands with polythene sheets. They collect the vegetables in baskets and carry them to the local market on their heads. They sell these vegetables there for three to four hours and if some vegetable remains they sell them all to local vegetable sellers at a cheap rate and then return. Some farmers can not carry the baskets to the market or can not spare so much time there, so they call a middleman (Bicholiya) and sell all the vegetables to them at cheap rates at the field itself. In this case the farmer's profit reduces considerably.
So this is how the vegetables are produced and brought to the market. We see how much labour a farmer and his family do in this process. Can we do only a part of this labour? No. So next, if you hard bargain a farmer (Kisan) think again how he has brought the vegetables in the market.
Most of the times a middleman or a permanent vegetable seller in the market earns more than the farmer without going through the hard work of the farmer. It is the point where cooperative institutions have a role to play for making available a good matket to the farmers and picking the vegetables directly from the field.
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