Telangana hints at shutting down village-level paddy procurement centres

The Telangana governing administration, which had released village-stage paddy procurement very last summer months, has hinted at closing down these procurement centres from this rabi time.

Telangana Agriculture and Advertising Minister S Niranjan Reddy has asked the officers to inform the farmers perfectly in advance of the rabi internet marketing time that the Point out governing administration may possibly not open procurement centres this time.

Having said that, there is no clarity still on regardless of whether the Point out Governing administration will wholly prevent the procurement or it is heading to prevent the procurement at the village stage as it did during very last summer months.

At a new overview assembly, Main Minister K Chandrashekar Rao claimed that there was no require for the governing administration to established up procurement centres at the village stage. “What we did in the summer months was just a just one-off gesture to assistance farmers encounter the issues posed by the pandemic.”

Sector purchases

“The farmers even now can get their produce to the 191 main agricultural marketyards and seventy two sub-marketyards in unique pieces of the Point out,” a Governing administration official claimed.

This signifies that the governing administration is not heading for procurement by opening getting centres. In the summer months, the Point out put in ₹30,000 crore on procuring all the agricultural produce (paddy and maize). It opened village-stage procurement centres to assistance the farmers conquer logistics hurdles during the Covid-19 outbreak.

Farmers’ demand

“The Governing administration must ensure invest in of the produce this rabi time. It just cannot clean its palms off the procurement wholly,” S Malla Reddy, Vice-President of All-India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), has claimed.

In the kharif time, the Governing administration so much has procured 60 lakh tonnes of paddy by spending about ₹8,900 crore. During the time, the Point out expects to produce 1.thirteen lakh tonnes of paddy as the farmers grew the crop on fifty four lakh acres.