Telangana hints at shutting down village-level paddy procurement centres

The Telangana federal government, which had introduced village-amount paddy procurement previous summer time, has hinted at closing down these procurement centres from this rabi season.

Telangana Agriculture and Advertising and marketing Minister S Niranjan Reddy has questioned the officers to inform the farmers properly ahead of the rabi marketing season that the State federal government may possibly not open up procurement centres this time.

On the other hand, there is no clarity yet on regardless of whether the State Authorities will entirely end the procurement or it is going to end the procurement at the village amount as it did throughout previous summer time.

At a modern evaluate conference, Main Minister K Chandrashekar Rao explained that there was no will need for the federal government to set up procurement centres at the village amount. “What we did in the summer time was just a 1-off gesture to help farmers facial area the difficulties posed by the pandemic.”

Marketplace purchases

“The farmers however can take their create to the 191 major agricultural marketyards and 72 sub-marketyards in different pieces of the State,” a Authorities formal explained.

This indicates that the federal government is not going for procurement by opening acquiring centres. In the summer time, the State expended ₹30,000 crore on procuring all the agricultural create (paddy and maize). It opened village-amount procurement centres to help the farmers get over logistics hurdles throughout the Covid-19 outbreak.

Farmers’ desire

“The Authorities need to assure buy of the create this rabi season. It just can’t wash its arms off the procurement entirely,” S Malla Reddy, Vice-President of All-India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), has explained.

In the kharif season, the Authorities so significantly has procured sixty lakh tonnes of paddy by paying out about ₹8,900 crore. All through the season, the State expects to create one.thirteen lakh tonnes of paddy as the farmers grew the crop on fifty four lakh acres.