An innocent farmer wearing a worn-out lungi visited a fertilizer shop on his old bike. In the local dialect, the farmer enquired about the cost of a bag of urea and DAP. With the shop owner’s reply of no stock, he visited the next fertilizer shop.
He bought them while the shop owner instead of bill has given a handwritten note with costs as Rs 280 and Rs 1,250 respectively. The farmer then asked the shop owner of why he was selling them for the price above the ceiling price set by the government.
After a while, to everyone’s surprise, both the shops were raided by local tahsildar and revenue officers who found out that the fertilizer shop owners are selling the stock at high prices without taking the Aadhar and biometric details from the farmers. Both the shops were seized.
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The incident happed in Krishna district Kaikaluru and the innocent farmer who enquired about the prices was the district sub-collector, Praveen Chand. The collector later revealed that he has been receiving a number of complaints from the district farmers over the shop owners selling the urea and fertilizers for high prices.
