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HYDERABAD
Minister for Civil Supplies and Irrigation N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has cautioned atom millers and others progressive successful the procurement of paddy this play against deduction successful value of the nutrient brought by farmers successful the sanction of chaff and different wastage arsenic the authorities is against immoderate determination that would origin nonaccomplishment to farmers.
At a gathering held present connected Sunday to reappraisal the ongoing workout of paddy procurement with the officials of the Civil Supplies section and with the District Collectors (through video-conference), the Minister said the authorities had revised the procurement quantity to 75 lakh tonnes against 90 lakh tonnes planned earlier based connected the arrivals of paddy astatine procurement centres.
He noted that the accumulation of paddy was estimated to beryllium 1.41 crore tonnes this Rabi play against implicit 1.5 crore tonnes estimated earlier. He stated that the authorities had already procured 51 lakh tonnes from farmers against the Centre’s procurement people of 52 lakh tonnes.
Stating that the authorities had paid ₹8,750 crore to farmers against the paddy procured truthful far, the Minister said the procurement would beryllium intensified further implicit the adjacent 10 days play to guarantee that each atom arriving astatine the procurement centres/market yards was purchased without delay. He instructed District Collectors and civilian supplies officials to implicit the procurement operations successful the adjacent 10 days.
He explained that the peculiar thrust was launched successful the backdrop of unprecedented cultivation output, mounting arrivals astatine procurement centres, terrible labour shortages, heatwave conditions and unseasonal rains threatening lasting stocks successful marketplace yards. He said full arrivals astatine the procurement centres were expected to interaction 75 lakh tonnes (LT) and assured farmers of procuring the full 75 LT contempt operational and fiscal pressures.
The Minister said the accumulation of 140.81 LT of paddy this Rabi play was imaginable from a grounds 65.91 lakh acres sum of the crop. Assuring that each atom brought to the procurement centres would beryllium purchased, including the rain-soaked paddy, truthful that nary husbandman suffered immoderate losses due to the fact that of adverse upwind conditions.
Asking the authorities to implicit procurement of 8.78 LT paddy that had already arrived successful 72 hours, the Minister said arsenic of May 23 astir 58.79 LT of paddy had arrived astatine procurement centres and 50.01 LT of it had already been procured oregon 85% of the full arrivals. He stated that different 16 LT was expected from late-harvest districts wrong the adjacent 10 days. The Civil Supplies section was moving successful a ngo mode with a regular procurement people of 3 LT.
Stating that an further 7 LT retention capableness was hired of precocious to enactment the procurement operation, the Minister said night-shift procurement operations and inter-district transport coordination were introduced to velocity up lifting and unloading astatine mills.
He explained that galore migrant hamalis and atom mill workers from West Bengal and Bihar had near for their location States during the caller assembly elections and had not returned connected time, resulting successful labour shortage importantly slowing down procurement and transport operations.
