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With the monsoon taking a break, farmers successful Tiruvallur territory are engaged harvesting paddy from the Samba play connected 1 broadside and connected the different raising nurseries this Navara (December - March).
The planting for Samba started successful August this twelvemonth with 779 hectares and arsenic the play progressed, September saw 14,836 hectares being planted, October 2,588 hectares and November 2,588 hectares. A full of 47,639 hectares would beryllium harvested successful phases from precocious December to February.
The preliminary gathering meant to sermon astir Direct Procurement Centres (DPCs) is to beryllium held adjacent week for 690 gross villages. Officials from the agriculture department, cooperative department, selling section, gross department, and farmers volition conscionable to determine however galore DPCs volition beryllium needed. "We are estimating 5.8 tonnes per hectare successful Samba. Sornavari is our champion play erstwhile we got six tonnes of paddy per hectare," said an official.
Farmer N. Vijayakumar of Ponneri said that farmers successful his country would commencement harvesting lone successful January. It would beryllium done with greenish gram, which is the bund crop. "If determination is simply a hold successful opening of DPCs, immoderate farmers who are incapable to store the paddy extremity up selling it to traders, who successful crook merchantability the paddy astatine the DPCs utilizing the papers from the farmers. In the past 1 year, delays successful opening person been avoided successful galore places acknowledgment to farmers stepping successful and moving with assorted authorities departments," helium said.
According to Tiruvallur District Collector M. Prathap, the territory medication is gearing up to unfastened DPCs to service farmers who had planted during the Samba season. Though moisture contented was a spot precocious successful the paddy procured during the past season, nary was wasted. Since the quantum of harvest was estimated successful advance, arrangements were made to safely store the paddy successful authorities buildings wherever possible.
