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hyderabad
Working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) K.T. Rama Rao has demanded that the State Government people a White Paper connected the procurement of each Rabi crops truthful acold this twelvemonth stating that not adjacent 35% of the full paddy produced has been procured by now, contempt the claims of 80% acquisition by the Chief Minister and 50% by the Civil Supplies Minister.
“We were expecting that the authorities would reappraisal the paddy procurement presumption and the deaths of farmers astatine procurement centres owed to delays,“ Mr. Rama Rao said, addressing a property league present connected Friday. He explained that implicit 10 farmers person died truthful acold connected the heaps of the nutrient owed to heatwave conditions, bosom onslaught and distress.
Giving details, helium stated that Md. Naseeruddin had collapsed connected his paddy heap astatine a procurement centre astatine Nakrekal successful Nalgonda district, a Congress activistic Ponnala Tirumalesh, who was waiting to merchantability his 200 bags of paddy astatine a procurement centre had staged a half-naked protestation and farmers protested successful Doultabad mandal of Kodangal constituency.
Four farmers died successful Mancherial district, 1 Venkateshwarlu died astatine Nekkonda successful Warangal territory and Shravan Kumar ended beingness allegedly by consuming a pesticide astatine Kolcharam successful Medak district.
The BRS person pointed retired that shortage of gunny sacks was forcing the farmers to bargain bags connected their ain by sparing ₹25 to ₹35 per container and paying waiting charges of ₹2,000 to ₹3,000 per time for tractors and lorries for delays successful unloading paddy astatine procurement centres earlier its sale. He accused the authorities of wilfully delaying procurement truthful that farmers could edifice to distress merchantability to traders astatine overmuch lesser terms compared to the enactment price.
Further, helium stated that 6 kg to 8 kg was being deducted successful each 100 kg of paddy successful the sanction of chaff and different wastage. The farmers were besides being made to instrumentality tarpaulin sheets connected prosecute to protect/cover paddy from unseasonal rainfall astatine the procurement centres.
He demanded that the authorities procure discoloured and germinated paddy without immoderate restrictions arsenic the atom was damaged lone owed to delays successful procurement. He stated that some the Chief Minister and Civil Supplies Minister were misleading farmers connected procurement and demanded ₹25 lakh ex gratia outgo each to each farmers who died owed to delays successful procurement.
