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Farmers of Kannamangalam adjacent Ilayangudi opposing to acceptable up a Direct Procurement Centre (DPC) successful their colony submitted a petition with the District Collector K. Porkodi present connected Monday.
Villagers said, paddy cultivation failed wholly successful their areas owed to inadequate rainfall. To code the situation, successful November past year, a solution was passed successful the Grama Sabha gathering to state their colony a drought affected area.
“On January 26, different solution was passed stating that since crops had withered owed to drought, a paddy procurement centre should not beryllium established this year,” they added.
Despite these resolutions, Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation was reportedly taking steps to acceptable up a DPC successful Kannamangalam, allegedly pursuing unit from ruling enactment members.
Villagers feared that if a procurement centre was opened, it would make a mendacious content that determination was a palmy harvest successful the region. This could pb to the denial of drought alleviation and security claims, they claimed.
They besides noted that the DPC successful a crop-less country would lone payment backstage traders alternatively than section farmers. “If the procurement centre is not shifted to different location, we volition motorboat a protest,” the villagers warned.
When questioned, officials from the Civil Supplies Corporation stated: “A paddy procurement centre is acceptable up successful this country each year. This twelvemonth too, we are proceeding based connected a study obtained from Agriculture Department officials.”
