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Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare R. Vinoth inspected paddy procurement and retention facilities successful the Kumbakonam municipality portion connected Sunday. He directed the officials to unfastened an further open-air retention installation astatine Krishnapuram and instrumentality steps to forestall atom nonaccomplishment during the ongoing procurement season.
During astonishment visits to the Patteeswaram Open Air Storage Centre, the Kumbakonam (Kottaiyur) Regulated Market and the Solzan Malligai Direct Paddy Procurement Centre (DPC), Mr. Vinoth reviewed retention capacity, procurement operations, and infrastructure requirements.
At the Patteeswaram Open Air Storage Centre, which has a retention capableness of 30,000 tonnes, the Minister said 25,000 tonnes of paddy had been stocked. As astir 3 lakh tonnes of paddy was expected to beryllium procured during the summertime Kuruvai season, helium directed the officials to hole astir 50 acres of municipality-owned onshore astatine Krishnapuram colony arsenic an further retention facility.
Mr. Vinodh instructed officials to support capable workers connected standby to screen paddy stacks during rainfall and expedite the process of securing onshore for a imperishable retention godown astatine Thandanthotam.
At the procurement centre, helium directed officials to guarantee paddy brought by farmers was procured without hold and that capable tarpaulins were stocked to forestall rainfall damage. He called for steps to code bundle issues affecting the registration of first-time sellers.
