Collectors told to notify cotton procurement centres immediately after completion of CCI bids process

HYDERABAD

Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao has asked the Marketing Department authorities to notify the ginning mills that would look arsenic the palmy bidders successful tenders called for fabric procurement truthful that acquisition of the nutrient is taken up astatine the earliest.

At a virtual reappraisal gathering held connected Sunday implicit fabric procurement, the Minister said that a full of 328 ginning mills had participated successful the bids invited by the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) for procurement, and tenders were opened connected October 10 to implicit the method bids process by October 11.

He instructed District Collectors to notify the ginning mills that would look arsenic bidders for procurement truthful that the process was speeded up. He suggested them to marque farmers enrol their names on with mobile numbers successful the “Kapas Kisan” app of the CCI for merchantability of fabric astatine the minimum enactment price.

The Minister asked officials to fto farmers log into the app based connected their Aadhaar numbers and OTP generated done them if mobile numbers were not available. Farmers who were not successful the CCI database should besides beryllium allowed to registry afresh.

Letter to Union MInister

He addressed a missive to Union Minister for Agriculture Shivraj Singh Chouhan with a petition to assistance the bounds of procuring 25% of the full nutrient of sesamum, bengalgram, groundnut, soybean, greengram and others nether the terms enactment strategy astatine MSP and besides see maize and jowar nether PSS.

At different reappraisal gathering held connected Saturday, Minister for Civil Supplies N. Uttam Kumar Reddy stated that the Civil Supplies Corporation was readying to procure 80 lakh tonnes of paddy retired of the estimated accumulation of 148.03 lakh tonnes from 66.80 lakh acres. The 80 lakh tonnes procurement would see 40 lakh tonnes each of good and communal varieties.

Of the 8,342 procurement centres planned for the Kharif selling season, 1,205 were already opened and had started procurement. Of the full procurement centres, IKP would handle/set up 3,517, PACS 4,259 and others 566. The authorities was readying to implicit the Kharif paddy procurement by the extremity of January 2nd week.