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Deputy Commissioner says that registration and procurement astatine acquisition centres volition beryllium carried retired utilizing Point of Sale machines, and Aadhaar-based biometric authentication volition beryllium mandatory. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO
The district-level Task Force Committee has approved the procurement of toor dal from farmers nether the Minimum Support Price (MSP) strategy for the 2025–26 season, pursuing orders issued by the State government.
The determination was taken astatine a gathering chaired by Deputy Commissioner Fouzia Taranum connected Thursday. Under the scheme, toor dal volition beryllium procured astatine ₹8,000 per quintal, with a ceiling of 4 quintals per acre, based connected the cultivated country reflected successful the FRUITS software.
Addressing the meeting, the Deputy Commissioner said that if marketplace prices stay higher than the MSP, the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India would procure toor dal done the e-auction portal of the Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs) and successful the unfastened marketplace astatine rates higher than MSP for buffer banal purposes.
For Kalaburagi district, the Karnataka State Pulses Development Board and the Karnataka State Cooperative Marketing Federation person been designated arsenic State procurement agencies. Toor dal volition beryllium procured done 141 Primary Agricultural Credit Cooperative Societies (PACCS) and Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) crossed the district.
The Deputy Commissioner said that registration and procurement astatine acquisition centres would beryllium carried retired utilizing Point of Sale machines, and Aadhaar-based biometric authentication would beryllium mandatory. She appealed to farmers to cooperate with the procurement agencies to guarantee creaseless implementation of the scheme.
The registration of farmers nether the MSP strategy volition beryllium unfastened till March 6, portion procurement of toor dal from registered farmers volition proceed till March 16. The outgo for the procured nutrient volition beryllium made straight to farmers’ slope accounts done the Direct Benefit Transfer portal.
Ms. Taranum urged farmers to attack their nearest PACCS, FPOs oregon toor dal procurement centres astatine APMCs to registry wrong the stipulated clip and avail the benefits of the MSP scheme.
For further accusation related to registration and procurement, farmers tin interaction the Karnataka State Cooperative Marketing Federation, Kalaburagi, astatine 9449864446 oregon the Karnataka State Pulses Development Board, Kalaburagi, astatine 9964474444.
Joint Director of Agriculture Samad Patel, Deputy Registrar of Cooperative Societies Kishor Patil, Assistant Director of the APMC Department Santosh, and officials from procurement agencies and the Pulses Development Board were contiguous astatine the meeting.
