Telangana hints at shutting down village-level paddy procurement centres

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The Telangana governing administration, which had introduced village-degree paddy procurement past summer time, has hinted at closing down these procurement centres from this rabi period.

Telangana Agriculture and Advertising Minister S Niranjan Reddy has questioned the officers to notify the farmers properly forward of the rabi internet marketing period that the Condition governing administration may not open up procurement centres this time.

Nevertheless, there is no clarity yet on no matter if the Condition Govt will completely prevent the procurement or it is heading to prevent the procurement at the village degree as it did during past summer time.

At a modern overview meeting, Main Minister K Chandrashekar Rao reported that there was no have to have for the governing administration to set up procurement centres at the village degree. “What we did in the summer time was just a a single-off gesture to assistance farmers encounter the issues posed by the pandemic.”

Marketplace buys

“The farmers nonetheless can acquire their develop to the 191 main agricultural marketyards and seventy two sub-marketyards in diverse elements of the Condition,” a Govt official reported.

This suggests that the governing administration is not heading for procurement by opening getting centres. In the summer time, the Condition expended ₹30,000 crore on procuring all the agricultural develop (paddy and maize). It opened village-degree procurement centres to assistance the farmers prevail over logistics hurdles during the Covid-19 outbreak.

Farmers’ desire

“The Govt ought to make sure obtain of the develop this rabi period. It just can’t wash its palms off the procurement completely,” S Malla Reddy, Vice-President of All-India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), has reported.

In the kharif period, the Govt so significantly has procured sixty lakh tonnes of paddy by investing about ₹8,900 crore. Throughout the period, the Condition expects to develop 1.13 lakh tonnes of paddy as the farmers grew the crop on 54 lakh acres.