3 weeks ago
1
Work to construct additional direct procurement centres (DPCs) for paddy is nearing completion successful Tiruvallur district, which already has implicit 30 permanent DPCs. Each centre will person a warehouse to store 2,000 bags astatine a time, an unfastened abstraction with cement flooring to battalion the bags, a weighing machine, and a winnowing instrumentality to region impurities.
“Both the cultivation selling helping of the Agriculture department and the territory medication nether the District Rural Development Agency are constructing the imperishable DPCs. Farmers privation DPCs successful each the 700-odd gross villages. We are prioritising villages wherever much farmers bring in a higher quantity of paddy for the permanent centres. More imperishable DPCs would beryllium constructed successful a phased manner,” said District Collector M. Prathap.
“Since the information of the paddy procured is of utmost importance, it has been our signifier to person seasonal DPCs in authorities buildings similar panchayat offices, SHG buildings, assemblage halls, and godowns belonging to different departments. When the DPCs are opened, we besides marque plans for transporting the paddy to mills and ample warehouses,” helium added.
M. Venkatesan, a husbandman from Krishnasamudram in Tiruttani block, said that a caller DPC was precocious opened successful their area, which helium said was a invited move. “The retention space, however, needs to be expanded. It tin lone store 2,000 bags, and farmers present merchantability 950-1,000 bags a day. We request much abstraction to battalion the bags arsenic well. A drying instrumentality would bash good astatine DPCs since moisture content is an contented astatine all centres. Currently, paddy has to be sent to the hulling mills to beryllium dried,” helium said.
Thanigaivel Kalathi, a husbandman from Coovum village successful the district, said a caller DPC was constructed astatine the different extremity of Cooum, which was 3 km distant from where the bulk of fields were located. “Local politicians chose that spot as it is person to their lands,” helium claimed. “There is simply a speech that we volition get a permanent DPC to screen the Kumaracheri and Irulacheri villages. Hopefully, al farmers volition beryllium consulted earlier the tract for the aforesaid is chosen. In each villages, the opinions of farmers indispensable beryllium taken into information earlier a final determination is made,” helium said.
