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With farmers inactive facing problems successful the disposal (sale) of their produce, peculiarly soybean, maize and cotton, astatine minimum enactment terms (MSP), Minister for Agriculture Tummala Nageswara Rao has written to the Centre again to unbend norms to forestall exploitation by traders and guarantee enactment price.
In abstracted letters addressed to Union Minister for Agriculture Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Minister for Textiles Giriraj Singh, Mr. Rao explained that farmers had suffered harvest harm and nonaccomplishment owed to untimely rains archetypal and past owed to Montha cyclone impact. He explained the necessity to unbend the just mean prime norms successful the aftermath of specified adverse conditions and guarantee farmers get enactment terms to their produce.
Mr. Rao stated that soybean was cultivated successful 3,66,697 acres during the Kharif play and the estimated output was 7.62 quintals per acre. However, untimely rains during the harvesting play had damaged the harvest badly, including discolouration and shrivelling of grain.
Accordingly, determination was each necessity to unbend the FAQs of soybean by the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (NAFED) and Federation National Cooperative Consumers Federation (NCCF), Mr. Nageswara Rao said and requested the Centre to nonstop NAFED to procure soybean with relaxed FAQ norms. The Centre had fixed MSP of ₹5,328 per quintal.
On maize, the Agriculture Minister said the harvest was raised successful 6.74 lakh acres and the output was estimated astatine 25 quintals per acre and the accumulation was estimated astatine 16.85 lakh tonnes. Against the MSP of ₹2,400 per quintal, the prices successful the unfastened markets and offered by traders was not crossing adjacent ₹1,960 per quintals.
As the farming assemblage was highly acrophobic astir the disposal of maize, the State Government had taken to procurement connected its ain and truthful acold 48,757 tonnes was procured astatine MSP from 14,519 farmers. Only the marketplace intervention/procurement by NAFED and NCCF would supply the overmuch needed alleviation to the farming community, helium noted.
On the procurement of fabric by the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), the curate requested the Union Textiles Minister to nonstop the CCI to unbend the revised norm of procuring lone 7 quintals of fabric per acre and reconstruct the norm of 11.74 quintals per acre based connected the mean output per acre successful Telangana.
He besides requested the Centre to code the problems successful spot booking and booking for procurement astatine centres operated by L1 and L2 class ginning mills.
