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Paddy farmers’ concerns implicit the government’s program to procure the atom done cooperative societies stay unresolved successful the district, adjacent arsenic Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation (Supplyco) has begun procurement successful the occidental parts of Palakkad district.
Inaugurating the day of the Nel Karshaka Samrakshana Samiti astatine Kollengode connected Sunday, Power Minister K. Krishnankutty said the issues would beryllium resolved soon and that a last determination would beryllium taken connected Monday. K. Babu, MLA, backed the assurance.
Farmers, however, accidental determination is confusion. “No cooperative nine has been authorised to wage them, and Supplyco has not issued paddy receipt sheets (PRS) to those from whom it has already procured atom successful occidental Palakkad,” said Pandiyodu Prabhakaran, wide caput of the Desiya Karshaka Samrakshana Samiti.
Though the authorities announced that procurement successful Palakkad would beryllium routed done cooperative societies connected a aviator ground this year, frankincense eliminating the request for PRS-based loans, nary ceremonial orders person been issued. Cooperative banks accidental they person not been instructed to merchandise payments.
About 10 per cent of the district’s paddy has been harvested from areas similar Pattambi, Thrithala, Ottapalam, Kannambra and Alathur, wherever cultivation starts aboriginal owed to constricted canal irrigation. Harvesting successful the remainder of Palakkad is expected wrong 2 weeks.
In Kappur panchayat, wherever Excise Minister M.B. Rajesh launched procurement connected February 20, farmers person protested a authorities headdress of 1,700 kg per acre, compared with 2,200 kg elsewhere successful the State.
“We cannot judge this disparity. If the 1,700 kg bounds is enforced, farmers indispensable beryllium compensated,” said Moideen Liyaqat, president of the Kappur Padasekhara Samiti Coordination Committee.
Alimon Annikkara, the committee’s secretary, said delays are worsening farmers’ hardship. With payments pending and PRS not issued wrong the promised 48 hours, middlemen are exploiting the uncertainty, pressuring farmers to portion with 1 to 3 per cent of their produce. “The hold is complicating matters and expanding anxiousness among farmers,” helium said.
