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Delta farmers are keeping their fingers crossed astir the prospects of samba harvest owed to unseasonal rainfall and misty upwind conditions prevailing implicit the portion for the past fewer days.
The farmers came crossed a akin concern during the precocious concluded kuruvai harvest erstwhile they faced hurdles successful harvest and disposal of paddy.
With the harvest of samba crop yet to summation momentum successful delta districts, Sundara Vimalanathan, secretary, Tamil Nadu Cauvery Delta Farmers Protection Association, said the unseasonal rainfall and dense mist successful the greeting would person a nonstop interaction connected the moisture contented successful paddy grains isolated from making the harvesting, adjacent with the usage of machines, difficult.
Claiming that the moisture contented would stay supra the stipulated 17% owed to the upwind conditions, helium called upon the State and Centre to guarantee timely completion of the processes to get astatine the enhanced moisture contented level successful paddy earlier the samba harvest picked up momentum and the harvested grains brought to the nonstop acquisition centres.
Pointing retired that fixation of moisture contented level astir 20% to 21% would beryllium a win-win concern for some cultivators and the large purchaser – Food Corporation of India, G. Sethuraman of Nannillam, a progressive farmer, said astute handling of paddy by officials during the post-procurement process would assistance trim the nonaccomplishment successful conversion of paddy grains arsenic rice.
Meanwhile, G. Srinivasan of Ganapathi Agraharam successful Papansam tahluk, a progressive farmer, urged the paddy procurement bureau - Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation - to guarantee harmless retention of samba paddy procured done the DPCs until they were moved for milling.
