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New Delhi, September 14 (HS). Bharatiya Kisan Sangh has praised the Central Government for increasing the import customs duty on edible oil. Kisan Sangh's General Secretary Mohini Mohan Mishra said that this decision of the Central Government is in the interest of oil producing farmers. A delegation of Kisan Sangh had met Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shivraj Chauhan on Tuesday and made this demand in this regard. We are happy that the Central Government took an immediate decision on our demand.
The country's largest farmers' organization, Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, has issued a press note welcoming the decision to increase the import customs duty on crude soybean oil, palm oil and crude sunflower oil from zero percent to 20 percent. It said that the workers of Bharatiya Kisan Sangh were protesting against the low price of soybean in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Karnataka. In this sequence, the delegation of Kisan Sangh met the Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on Tuesday and submitted a memorandum demanding to increase the customs duty by amending the import policy on edible oil in oilseeds. The central government has approved the decision to increase the customs duty, Bharatiya Kisan Sangh welcomes this decision of the government.
In a press release issued by Kisan Sangh's publicity chief Raghvendra Singh Patel, it has been told that in the talks with Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, it was also discussed to reduce the cost of agriculture by eliminating GST on agricultural production material. In this memorandum, the demand for crop insurance for farmers, GM seeds, increasing the budget of agricultural research, increase in Kisan Samman Nidhi, formation of turmeric board, strengthening the farmer producer group, promoting cow-based agriculture, making farmer-friendly seed law was also prominently placed.
It is noteworthy that in the major oil producing states of the country, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Karnataka, the workers of Kisan Sangh are agitating demanding the price of soybean to be Rs 6000 per quintal. Along with this, the government has announced to buy soybean at MSP to address the problem of low price in the market of soybean producing farmers in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, which is being described as a good step of the government. The government's decision to increase the import duty on edible oil by 20 percent is also being linked to this. The increase in import duty is likely to lead to a rise in soybean prices in the market.