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Paddy banal kept connected the roadside abutting the Someswarapuram DPC, adjacent Veeramangudi successful Thanjavur district. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Farmers successful Thanjavur territory person suggested that their tractor-trailers beryllium deployed for proscription of paddy bags from the Direct Purchase Centres (DPCs) to retention points oregon hulling units to debar delays.
The “inordinate delay” successful shifting paddy from the DPCs to retention points oregon straight to hulling units had been affecting the procurement process, they said, pointing to heaps of paddy lying connected the roadside successful and astir the DPCs successful the district.
Lamenting that storing of aboriginal ‘kuruvai’ harvest nutrient successful unfastened results successful abnormal summation successful the moisture content, they said that procurement and processing of paddy with higher moisture contented would lone effect successful accumulation of mediocre prime rice.
Whenever the “kuruvai” harvest harvest takes spot successful the delta region, the nutrient gets affected by northeast monsoon precipitation, they said and expressed apprehension that this twelvemonth the hold successful shifting the banal of paddy mightiness complicate the problem.
Progressive farmers specified arsenic G. Srinivasan of Ganapathi Agraharam and Tamil Nadu Cauvery Farmers’ Protection Association caput Sundara Vimalanathan had suggested that the tractor-trailers owned by farmers could beryllium engaged for transferring the procured paddy from DPCs to the godowns oregon to hulling units to flooded the problems claimed to beryllium faced by the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation successful the proscription of paddy bags and deployment of paddy dryers astatine each DPCs.
They exhorted the State authorities to get support from the Union authorities to procure ‘kuruvai’ paddy with higher moisture contented of supra 20% during the ‘kuruvai’ procurement, which is expected to prime up successful the days to come.
