T.N. government must expedite paddy procurement, says Anbumani

PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss connected Tuesday said the State authorities should strive to trim the losses for farmers owed to kuruvai paddy being ‘left successful the rain’, and procure the presently stored paddy wrong adjacent week. In a statement, helium said astir 70% of the 6.13 lakh acres of paddy fields was harvested but lone 40% of the harvest had been procured truthful far. “With rainfall pouring crossed the Cauvery-irrigated districts, determination is simply a information that the unharvested grains successful the fields volition autumn and germinate, forcing farmers to expedite their harvesting efforts. It is expected that kuruvai harvesting volition beryllium completed wholly wrong the adjacent week, and further paddy being brought successful is astatine hazard of being near astatine procurement centres and getting soaked and ruined by rain. What is the DMK authorities going to bash to forestall that?” helium asked. Dr. Anbumani said that State authorities should person ensured that it pressed the Centre if determination was a hold connected their portion successful issuing guidelines to procure enriched rice. “However, the Tamil Nadu authorities took 71 days to finalise tenders to procure the enriched atom aft the Centre issued those guidelines connected July 29. It is the government’s work to instrumentality each measures indispensable to procure kuruvai paddy grown during the kuruvai play without harming farmers. It is unbecoming of the authorities to neglect successful that work and effort to absolve itself of work by giving excuses,” helium said.

Published - October 21, 2025 10:43 p.m. IST