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Secretary to the Department of Co-operation and Food and Consumer Protection K.S. Palanisamy connected Monday reviewed samba paddy procurement astatine the nonstop acquisition centres (DPCs) successful Thanjavur district.
According to an authoritative release, Mr. Palanisamy said 540 nonstop acquisition centres person been opened successful Thanjavur territory successful the 2025-26 Kharif Marketing Season (KMS). As connected February 8, 1.31 lakh tonnes of samba paddy had been procured from farmers who harvested their harvest raised connected 1 lakh acres retired of the 3.23 lakh acres brought nether samba cultivation successful Thanjavur territory during the existent Kharif Marketing Season, Mr. Palanisamy said.
Another 5 lakh tonnes of samba paddy was expected to beryllium harvested successful Thanjavur district, the authoritative said and added that this twelvemonth the full procurement during kharif play would surpass past season’s procurement of 5,03,571 tonnes of samba paddy and interaction 6 lakh tonnes.
As acold arsenic the merchantability proceeds released to farmers, Mr. Palanisamy said that truthful acold ₹254.57 crore had been disbursed to 26,369 farmers done physics clearing work wrong 2 days of measurement of paddy astatine the DPCs.
Zonal-level committees had been formed to cheque oregon forestall merchantability of paddy by non-farmers by producing “fake documents” astatine the DPCs, helium added.
