With no fixed price for jasmine flowers, farmers incur losses

They want govt to set minimum support price

By Arsha B. S.

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are making profit Manjula, a distributor and seller, said: “I take the flowers from Ramanagara I have been selling these flowers for eight years now ” She said that she sells one yard of the flower for Rs 350 I make about Rs 3,000 on an average selling these flowers every day ”

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farmers in Kampli taluk are incurring losses while the distributors and sellers are raking in profit Owing to a lack of fixed price, farmers are now looking for options other than jasmine farming

Harish Singh, a farmer, informed The Observer: “Some days the price per kg will be Rs 100 and some days it goes up to Rs 500 In both cases we have to pay the salaries for the workers who pluck the flowers and take care of other expenses also When the prices go down so much, it becomes harder for us to earn anything ”

The farmers get the market price of the flowers every day in their WhatsApp group The prices are updated every day On festival days, the prices go up, but for most part of the year, the farmers barely get any profit

The Observer noticed that there is too much pesticides sprayed on the plants Basavaraj, another farmer, said: “We have to spray pesticides and use chemicals because it helps us in getting more yield We have to harvest the buds every day The distributors won’t take it if we send flowers instead of buds ”

The Observer asked whether they make any profit, he said:

“The market prices vary every day Even if the prices are too low, we can’t refuse to send the flowers because they will get ruined We can’t store the flowers like other crops So even if it is Rs 20 per kg or Rs 200 per kg, we have to send the flowers to the distributors We hardly make any profit It is like