3 months ago
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A terrible logistics contented astatine the Direct Procurement Centre (DPC) astatine Karseri panchayat successful the territory has near section farmers successful distress. For over 14 days, procurement process has travel to a near-standstill owed to non-availability of transport vehicles, leaving thousands of bags exposed to the elements.
What began arsenic a insignificant hold has snowballed into a large crisis. Now, more than 6,000 paddy bags are stacked successful the DPC and surrounding unfastened space. Despite the atom being acceptable for transport, not a azygous motortruck has arrived astatine the DPC successful the past 2 weeks to determination the banal to authorities godowns oregon mills.
The deficiency of question had created a ‘space crunch’ paralysing the section cultivation cycle, B. Sathish, a farmer, said, adding, “With the warehouse astatine afloat capacity, determination is nary country to store incoming paddy. Farmers who are bringing successful caller nutrient are incapable to container their grain, arsenic determination is nary abstraction near to facilitate weighing and packing processes.”
Keeping harvested paddy successful the unfastened for agelong accrued the hazard of harm from moisture, pests, and unpredictable weather. The hold was not simply logistical, but was profoundly financial, helium said.
“Most small-scale farmers trust connected contiguous outgo triggered by palmy procurement and dispatch of their atom to settee debts and negociate the adjacent sowing season,” he added.
The two-week hiatus has choked the currency flow, leaving galore farmers successful a precarious position. Local farming unions and residents person voiced their vexation implicit the negligence of the transport contractors and section officials. They made an entreaty to the authorities to dispatch trucks to wide the 6,000-bag backlog wrong the next 48 hours.
They besides urged them to analyse why Karseri was bypassed by transport schedules and guarantee a steady rotation of vehicles to lucifer the highest harvest pace.
“We person done our portion by producing the grain. Now, seeing the effect of our hard enactment lying nether the prima with nary mode to determination is heart-breaking and financially ruinous,” said another farmer.
A DPC unit subordinate cited the transport contractor’s nonaccomplishment to supply vehicles arsenic the superior origin for the backlog. “Under the existent contract, astatine slightest 1 motortruck should beryllium dispatched regular to transport the paddy to Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation (TNCSC) warehouse astatine Thiruvathavur,” the unit subordinate added.
He further said until the banal was cleared, determination was nary abstraction for the farmers to store caller arrivals.
