Need to install paddy dryers at DPCs stressed

Delta farmers’ associations person stressed the value of equipping each the nonstop acquisition centres (DPC) with paddy dryers to guarantee procurement of paddy complying with the moisture contented rule.

Pointing retired that Tamil Nadu was the lone State that receives some Southwest and Northeast rains starring to the contented of higher moisture contented levels successful paddy grains during some ‘kharif’ and ‘rabi’ (kuruvai and samba/thaladi successful Delta region) procurement seasons, they claimed that provisioning of dryers astatine each the DPCs acceptable up by the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation, which procures paddy from farmers connected behalf of the Food Corporation of India, would assistance flooded the moisture contented content being faced by the Delta farmers each year.

Provisioning of dryers could beryllium implemented connected the lines of installation of winnowers astatine astir each the DPCs successful Tamil Nadu aft the farmers recovered it hard to bring paddy grains conferring with the 3rd enactment particles information for measurement astatine DPCs, a fewer years ago.

As it had helped the farmers flooded the problems successful winnowing paddy grains connected their own, installation of dryers would beryllium adjuvant to the farmers and arsenic good arsenic achieving the nonsubjective of the FCI to procure prime paddy grains, said a progressive farmer, G. Srinivasan of Ganapathi Agraharam successful Papanasam taluk, Thanjavur district.

Mean time, the Tamil Nadu All Farmers Organisation Coordination Committee, represented by its president, P.R.Pandian submitted a memorandum to the Central Team that visited the Kovilvenni DPC successful Needamangalam taluk of Tiruvarur territory connected Tuesday to inspect the moisture contented successful the paddy, demanding that dryers beryllium installed astatine each the DPCs.

Pleading that the moisture relaxation norms should beryllium decided successful beforehand each twelvemonth to debar procedural delays, the Committee sought the constitution of a fortified atom investigating laboratory astatine Chennai and announcement of the trial results to guarantee uninterrupted paddy procurement.