Tribal Exploited by Business Magnets on their Procured Items
Bhagabat Padhi,Odishabarta
Paralakhemundi-Years together tribals,who are landless beseiged on hillslope with their hard earned minor millet crops.On procurement time radicals like business tycoons sambered at their villages to collect those materials at toy prices instead of less bargaining on weight values. On weekly markets of the district like Paralakhemundi; Gumma; Kashinagar; Gaiba,Kujasing of Gumma;Jirango, Mandalsahi,Rayagada of Rayagada;Nuagada, Khajuripada of Nuagada; RUdayagiri,Cheligada of RUdayagiri;Chudangapur,Adava,Chandiput of Mohana blocks are frustrated with low prices of their procurements those are affordable at more than 50 to 100℅ market price in towns & cities like Paralakhemundi, Brahmapur & beyond intra & interstate transportation.Trucks, pickup vans gathered at those weekly markets zone to pump huge quantities of those goods on cheaper rates. Moreso at Mohana, RUdayagiri & Nuagada blocks maize produced at huge quantities in up & medium lands. Those business men persuing credit of fertilizers to tribal communities during cultivation without bargaining & during procurement time come with tons load vehicles to sweep those goods without any market price bargaining.Those tribals living in cottages have hard toil to produce where those business goons have their palatial buildings at cities with huge profit income of millets & other forest produced, even herbal items like amla,harida, bahada & others used for Ayurvedic medicines. Mahua, karanja, tamarind, jhuna like such more regular forest produced too not meeting actual market price for those tribal producers. Instead of loaded bags they deprived all bargaining due to assured credits they brought from those tycoons. 50 to 80℅ of marginal profit assured by those business gamblers where ITDA, TDCC should have monitored living & livelihoods of those backward tribal communities,even Biju Pucca Yojana still not covered all hamlets of Gajapati district despite 75th belligerent celebration of Independence.
At least now District Administration must look after their drowned & hand to mouth livelihoods & need of marketing & procesing zone of those produced millets & forest items which can bring their better standard of living what learneds feeling.
