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Affected by continuous rainfall, farmers of Chengalpattu territory connected Saturday (October 25, 2025) impressed upon the peculiar squad of officials from the Centre to unbend the permissible moisture contented for paddy procurement.
District Collector D. Sneha said that Chengalpattu has 72 DPCs tally by the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation and 5 by the NCCF and these person been procuring paddy that person moisture contented of up to 17% this Sornavari season.
The Committee visited 5 nonstop procurement centres (DPCs) astatine Keerapakkam successful Thirukazhukundram, Oragadam successful Thiruporur, Villiyampakkam successful Kattankulathur, and S. N. Puram and Padalam successful Maduranthakam and collected paddy samples.
R. Muralimohan, secretary, Chengalpattu District Farmers Association, said that owed to continuous rainfall farmers were incapable to adust paddy. “Rice mills and warehouses of the FCI person amended facilities to adust the paddy. Paddy with moisture contented implicit 17% has been waiting astatine the DPCs. Farmers anticipation that the Centre volition see our requests and procure this paddy,” helium said.
