GANGTOK, April 20: The Sikkim state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a press note today reminded the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) government of its 2003 notification of the imminent failure of Organic Farming Policy. This policy was something like asking the hospitals to stop allopathic medicines and go to herbal or homeopathy or ayurvedic medicine to treat the patients.
The outburst of the Chief Minister on 19 April at Khamdong declaring shameful failure of the Department of Agriculture and Horticulture is the direct acceptance of the failure of the SDF government and its policy of organic farming. The government cannot take credit of all the good works done by the departments as SDF government achievement and leave aside the bad works done as not the discredit of the SDF government, but of the department.
On the one hand the SDF boast of having taken Sikkim to a new height and on the other hand accepts that it has done nothing to the greater portion of the population that depends on agriculture. It is nothing, but acceptance of being the same person as the witch and the witchcraft, the BJP opined.
The BJP didn’t hesitate to state that the SDF government is ‘Anti-farmer’ and since the farmers are the poor lot in Sikkim, it is ‘Anti-poor’. The SDF government since its inception changed the slogan time and again to mislead the farmers. First it went with the slogan of ‘Horticulture’ and wiped out the Apple completely with partial to complete wiping out of Orange and Cardamom. Then came with the slogan of ‘Tea’ but did nothing.
Then came with the slogan of ‘Passion Fruit’, but did nothing. Then came organic farming and further accelerated wiping out of Orange and Cardamom besides adding two item viz. (i) reduction of price of Cardamom from Rs 14,000 to Rs 4,000 per 40 kgs and Ginger price from Rs1,000 to Rs 200 per 40 kgs in the name of organic produce and (ii) decreasing the yield of all crops to the lowest level. “Now it has again came with the slogan of Floriculture”, the party said, “followed by the most recent slogan of Seed Production”.
For the benefit of the farmers and the poor, the BJP would suggest the government to immediately change the organic farming policy to which it has no hesitation to call as ‘foolish policy’ in the absence of any plan for how to produce, how to get certification, where and whom to sell, at what price to sell etc.
The outburst of the Chief Minister on 19 April at Khamdong declaring shameful failure of the Department of Agriculture and Horticulture is the direct acceptance of the failure of the SDF government and its policy of organic farming. The government cannot take credit of all the good works done by the departments as SDF government achievement and leave aside the bad works done as not the discredit of the SDF government, but of the department.
On the one hand the SDF boast of having taken Sikkim to a new height and on the other hand accepts that it has done nothing to the greater portion of the population that depends on agriculture. It is nothing, but acceptance of being the same person as the witch and the witchcraft, the BJP opined.
The BJP didn’t hesitate to state that the SDF government is ‘Anti-farmer’ and since the farmers are the poor lot in Sikkim, it is ‘Anti-poor’. The SDF government since its inception changed the slogan time and again to mislead the farmers. First it went with the slogan of ‘Horticulture’ and wiped out the Apple completely with partial to complete wiping out of Orange and Cardamom. Then came with the slogan of ‘Tea’ but did nothing.
Then came with the slogan of ‘Passion Fruit’, but did nothing. Then came organic farming and further accelerated wiping out of Orange and Cardamom besides adding two item viz. (i) reduction of price of Cardamom from Rs 14,000 to Rs 4,000 per 40 kgs and Ginger price from Rs1,000 to Rs 200 per 40 kgs in the name of organic produce and (ii) decreasing the yield of all crops to the lowest level. “Now it has again came with the slogan of Floriculture”, the party said, “followed by the most recent slogan of Seed Production”.
For the benefit of the farmers and the poor, the BJP would suggest the government to immediately change the organic farming policy to which it has no hesitation to call as ‘foolish policy’ in the absence of any plan for how to produce, how to get certification, where and whom to sell, at what price to sell etc.
