6 months ago
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HYDERABAD
The neglect of the State authorities and the delays successful paddy procurement were causing a immense nonaccomplishment to farmers arsenic the authorities had purchased lone astir 6 lakh tonnes of the nutrient truthful acold against the people of 85 lakh tonnes, arsenic being claimed repeatedly by the government, elder person of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) T. Harish Rao has alleged.
Bills were not paid wholly adjacent for the full procured quantity, Mr. Harish Rao said connected Sunday aft visiting the paddy procurement centre astatine Mallaram colony successful Chinnakodur mandal of his Siddipet constituency.
He stated that bills of astir ₹1,200 crore against the procured paddy were not paid truthful acold and different ₹200 crore connected bonus for good varieties of paddy, astatine ₹500 per quintal, was besides pending. The claims of the Minister for Civil Supplies and others successful the authorities that the bonus was being paid wrong 24 hours of the procurement was not existent anywhere.
Instead the authorities was yet to wide the bonus dues pertaining to the past yasangi/rabi season. He demanded that the authorities merchandise the past year’s dues instantly and velocity up procurement of paddy pertaining to the kharif/vanakalam play by completing tie-up with millers arsenic the farming assemblage were facing problems owed to crisp dip successful temperatures, peculiarly during the nighttime times portion guarding their nutrient astatine the procurement centres.
On maize procurement, the BRS person said the destiny of farmers who raised the harvest excessively was nary antithetic either and the hold successful commencing procurement had forced respective farmers to dispose of their nutrient astatine prices overmuch little than the minimum enactment terms of ₹2,400 per quintal. The farmers had raised maize successful astir 6 lakh acres during kharif, helium noted.
Mr. Harish Rao criticised the Central and State governments successful the substance of fabric procurement excessively arsenic the ginning mills notified arsenic procurement centres were purchasing lone 7 quintal of fabric per acre arsenic per the norms revised by the Cotton Corporation of India against the mean accumulation of 11 to 12 quintals per acre successful galore districts. He besides demanded that the State authorities merchandise input subsidy to farmers who suffered harvest nonaccomplishment owed to Cyclone Montha.
