The Tamil Nadu government, which procures paddy connected behalf of the Central government, offers precise debased terms arsenic inducement to paddy farmers, said Pattali Makkal Katchi president Anbumani Ramadoss present connected Saturday.
Addressing farmers astatine Kuruchi hamlet successful Thirupanandal taluk successful Thanjavur district, arsenic portion of his State-wide run ‘Tamil Nadu People’s Rights Retrieval Journey’, Dr. Anbumani said portion the Centre offered ₹2,369 per quintal arsenic the minimum enactment terms (MSP), the State authorities added conscionable ₹131 arsenic ‘incentive’ to marque it ₹2,500 per quintal.
In neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, the State authorities offered ₹500 implicit and supra the MSP and successful Odisha the paddy farmers got ₹800 successful summation to the MSP fixed by the Centre.
The Tamil Nadu farmers were struggling to marque ends conscionable since they realised conscionable astir ₹50 per quintal arsenic ‘real profit’ successful presumption of the steep summation successful input and cultivation costs. Such being the case, it would not beryllium due connected the portion of Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation employees to request ‘bribe’ for measuring the paddy astatine nonstop acquisition centres.
While urging the DPC unit to shed the signifier of demanding bribe from farmers, helium said the State authorities should heighten its publication to marque the per quintal acquisition terms successful Tamil Nadu arsenic ₹3,500, for the payment of farmers.
He besides urged the State authorities to guarantee that indispensable infrastructure was disposable astatine the DPCs, truthful that not adjacent a fistful of paddy went discarded owed to vagaries of nature.
Later successful the day, Dr. Anbumani addressed rallies astatine Kumbakonam successful Thanjavur territory and Nannilam successful Tiruvarur territory arsenic portion of the campaign.
