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Farmers’ associations person raked up issues faced by ryots successful getting their ‘samba/thaladi’ paddy harvest insured during the existent ‘rabi’ play and sought remedial measures from the government.
While the Coordination Committee of All Farmers Associations of Tamil Nadu claimed that the timing of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has stymied the harvest security exertion process, the Tamil Nadu Cauvery Farmers Protection Association (TNCFPA) listed retired assorted issues specified arsenic non-issuance of close cultivation certificate by the colony administrative officers, postulation of ‘extra’ charges for uploading of documents and others.
Stating that the inept handling of ‘kuruvai’ paddy procurement process had slowed down the nursery raising and transplantation exercises of samba/thaladi crop, the Committee claimed that availing the cultivation certificates from VAOs, an indispensable papers for applying for harvest insurance, has turned retired to beryllium a time-consuming process successful presumption of the SIR. Hence, the Committee sought an hold of the deadline for applying for harvest security by different fortnight from November 15.
Mean time, the TNCFPA has exhorted the Tamil Nadu authorities to instruct the VAOs to contented cultivation certificates to those who person raised the nursery for transplantation since the security companies request specified certificates lone and not the certification that the nursery had been ‘raised for transplantation’ arsenic issued by immoderate VAOs, who person been deployed successful SIR exercise.
Urging the authorities to widen the deadline for harvest security by different 30 days from November 15, the relation alleged that hefty charges were being levied astatine the e-Service centres wherever the farmers attack to get the documents uploaded on with their exertion for harvest insurance.
