{"id":306506,"date":"2018-12-03T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T07:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306506"},"modified":"2018-12-03T07:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T07:31:00","slug":"nashik-farmer-gets-rs-1064-for-750-kg-of-onion-produce-sends-earnings-to-pm-in-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nashik-farmer-gets-rs-1064-for-750-kg-of-onion-produce-sends-earnings-to-pm-in-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashik farmer gets Rs. 1,064 for 750 kg of Onion produce, sends earnings to PM in protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306510 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/farmer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"280\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An onion-grower named Sanjay Sathe from Maharashtra\u2019s Nashik District who had to sell his produce for little over Rs. 1 per kg has sent his earnings to the Prime Minister to mark his protest over government\u2019s apathy towards farmers\u2019 woes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sathe reportedly said, &#8220;I produced 750kg of onion in this season but was offered a rate of only Rs. 1 per kg at Niphad wholesale market past week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sathe further said, \u201cFinally I could negotiate a deal for Rs. 1.40 per kg and received Rs. 1,064 for 750 kg.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;It was really painful to see such miserable returns on four months of hard work. Hence I have donated my earnings of Rs. 1,064 to Disaster Relief Fund of the PMO as a protest. Even I had to pay an additional sum of Rs. 54 for sending it by money order,&#8221; Sathe added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sathe sent the money order on November 29 from the Niphad office of India Post. It was addressed to &#8220;Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sathe was among those &#8216;progressive farmers&#8217; who were selected by the Union Agriculture Ministry for an interaction with then US President Barack Obama during his visit to India in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An onion-grower named Sanjay Sathe from Maharashtra\u2019s Nashik District who had to sell his produce for little over Rs. 1 per kg has sent his earnings to the Prime Minister to mark his protest over government\u2019s apathy towards farmers\u2019 woes. Sathe reportedly said, &#8220;I produced 750kg of onion in this season but was offered a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[1467,10043,10042],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306511,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306506\/revisions\/306511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}