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HYDERABAD
Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao has asked the Markfed authorities to velocity up procurement of maize taken up with ₹4,000 crore and said the authorities is besides acceptable to procure jowar with ₹1,100 crore.
He criticised the Centre for not coming to the rescue of the farming assemblage contempt repeated pleas connected their troubles and losses being suffered with unseasonal rains. He demanded that the Centre see maize and jowar successful the terms enactment strategy and assistance the ceiling of 25% of the nutrient successful the procurement of bengalgram and groundnut and summation it to astatine slightest 50%.
In a gathering with the selling section officials, helium reviewed the ongoing workout of maize procurement, retention facilities, availability of gunny sacks, proscription arrangements and Central Government policies. Officials informed the curate that 9.57 lakh tonnes of maize was procured from farmers truthful acold astatine the minimum enactment terms of ₹2,400 per acre. The worth of the procurement truthful acold is astir ₹2,297 crore.
He stated that godowns/storage facilities of 15.07 lakh tonnes quantity would beryllium required for storing maize procured this play but the disposable abstraction was lone for 11.4 lakh tonnes. As the retention abstraction for different 3.29 lakh tonnes was required astatine the earliest, helium asked the authorities to marque indispensable arrangements for storage.
Against the request of 3 crore gunny bags for maize procurement, 2 crore bags were arranged already. The curate said helium would constitute to the Union Minister for Agriculture requesting summation successful the procurement of bengalgram and groundnut crops to astatine slightest 50% of the full produce.
According to Agriculture officials, maize was cultivated successful 16,36,730 acres successful Rabi and the accumulation was estimated astatine 43,48,791.6 tonnes astatine 26.57 quintals per acre. Similarly, jowar was raised successful 4,03,400 acres and accumulation estimated was 4,03,400 tonnes astatine an mean 10 quintals per acre. The MSP fixed for jowar by the Centre is ₹3,699 per quintal for hybrid varieties and ₹3,749 per quintal for ‘maldandi’ variety.
