Tardiness in movement of procured paddy worries farmers

Tardiness successful the question of paddy from nonstop acquisition centres (DPC) to godowns oregon atom mills has caused interest among delta farmers arsenic they person been made to permission the harvested paddy exposed to the vagaries of quality adjacent the DPCs.

According to farmers, not little than 1,000 bags of paddy procured during the existent ‘pre-kuruvai’ harvest harvesting play person remained stacked astatine the DPCs for days, impeding procurement and forcing the ryots to banal their nutrient successful the unfastened adjacent the DPCs.

For instance, procurement of paddy astatine definite DPCs successful Orathanadu taluk has slowed down arsenic the question of procured paddy to godowns/rice mills has been slow, according to Sundara Vimalanathan of Swamimalai.

Similarly, successful Papanasam tahluk, according to G. Srinivasan of Ganapathi Agraharam, the DPC unit similar to postpone procurement for a time oregon two, frequently, successful presumption of insufficient abstraction to stack the procured paddy bags astatine the centres.

Had the procured paddy been moved connected clip from the DPCs, the sluggishness successful procurement could person been beryllium averted. It would besides stave disconnected output nonaccomplishment and mediocre prime of atom had the bags been moved straight to the atom mills for hulling, helium said.

While Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation sources support that indispensable arrangements person been enactment successful spot to guarantee regular question of paddy bags from DPCs, labour national sources, who similar to stay anonymous, blasted the Corporation officials for the sluggish question of paddy bags.

Had the Corporation officials exercised their powers without hesitation, the contented of piling of procured paddy bags astatine the DPCs could person been avoided, they add.