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The Kilimanoor artifact panchayat successful Thiruvananthapuram has launched its ain marque of rice. The KMR Rice formally launched successful the section markets earlier this week is the effect of an involution made by the artifact panchayat successful the agriculture sector. Kilimanoor artifact panchayat president B.P. Murali told The Hindu that the section assemblage has acceptable up a atom mill to process the paddy, and to clean, de-husk, and bundle the produce.
Paddy is procured from farmers successful 8 grama panchayats which travel nether the artifact panchayat. The atom mill has a capableness to process 1 tonne of atom a day. The inaugural is being taken up nether the Bhoomimithra Farmer Producer Organisation nether the aegis of the artifact panchayat and the Agriculture department.
₹70 lakh successful subsidy
“On an average, the artifact panchayat gets astir ₹9 crore of Plan funds annually. We had chalked retired plans to usage the funds successful a mode to payment the maximum fig of people. The 8 panchayats nether the artifact nutrient immoderate of the largest quantities of paddy successful Thiruvananthapuram district. The artifact is providing a full of ₹70 lakh successful subsidy to the farmers. When the paddy accumulation increased, the hold successful procurement and outgo created issues for the farmers. This concern led america to the thought of a atom processing mill and our ain brand,” says Mr. Murali.
The KMR Rice has been made disposable successful packages of 1 kg, 2 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg. The Kilimanoor Cooperative Agricultural and Rural Development Bank Limited provided 80 cents of onshore for the mill, portion the artifact bureau has provided store country space.
The Kilimanoor artifact panchayat besides completed the archetypal signifier of operation of a level analyzable for Scheduled Tribe families nether the State government’s LIFE lodging project. Keys to 18 families were handed implicit this week. A full of 51 families volition get flats nether the project.
