NOIDA: Over 40% of rice crop from kharib season is harvested and piled up in the villages of Gautam Budh Nagar , waiting to be sold.The whole sellers of the region, largely located in the wholesale crop market of Dankaur, have refused to pick up the crop as they do not have enough cash available in new banknotes, post the demonetization of Rs500 and Rs1000 banknotes."The farmers have been going to the market. A large number of farmers had sold their crop before the announcement, so they are not affected, but about 40% farmers, harvested their crops later and by the time their rice was ready for the market, the announcement came. The government has announced the wholesale buyers who procure crops from farmers to withdraw Rs50, 000 per week from the bank. That amount is not enough to procure the huge supplies that is yet to be picked up from the fields," Dushyant Nagar, convenor, Kisan Sangharsh Samiti (KSS) told TOI.The members of Kisan Sangharsh Samiti on Sunday went from village to village to check out the status of unsold crop. According to KSS members, the farmers expressed fear that if the crop yield is not collected now, the farmers may be pushed to a distress situation which compels them to sell at cheap rates."Finally, the crops would either perish or have to be sold in distress at cheap rates. If the farmers are forced to sell their crops at cheap rates, the financial situation in the villages would go down severely. Already many farmers have been affected by the demonetization of Rs500 and Rs1000 notes ," Kapil Nagar, a farmer from Greater Noida's Patwari village, said."First rice is not getting sold at most villages, second wheat is not getting sown properly. So this will ultimately impact the supply chain. We are presently taking stock of how each village has been affected by the demonetization and trying to see how the farmers can be helped," Nagar added.