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The Communist Party of India’s State enforcement subordinate P. Kameswara Rao connected Wednesday urged the State authorities to guarantee Minimum Support Price (MSP) for paddy, arsenic farmers were being forced to merchantability the harvest astatine throwaway prices owed to the lack of procurement centres successful Vizianagaram and different parts of the State.
CPI territory caput Ommi Ramana, alongwith the party’s adjunct caput Bugata Ashok and AP Rythu Sangham wide caput Degala Appala Raju, staged a protestation astatine the Vizianagaram Collector’s bureau to item the grievances of farmers.
Speaking to media, Mr. Kameswara Rao said that the authorities was not taking capable measures to procure 50 lakh metric tonnes of paddy successful spite of its repeated promises implicit the proviso of paddy bags and constitution of capable fig of procurement centres. He further alleged that owed to the lack of procurement centres farmers were selling 75 kg paddy bags for ₹1,200 to millers, though the existent terms is ₹1,700.
