Eluru: Open paddy procurement centres, Joint Collector K Venkata Ramana Reddy tells officials

Eluru: West Godavari Joint Collector K Venkata Ramana Reddy has asked the officials concerned to open paddy procurement centres (PPCs)next month to purchase paddy cultivated in Rabi season. Conducting a review meeting with the officials on Tuesday, Ramana Reddy has appealed to the farmers to check the brokers and middlemen in paddy procurement and ensure that the paddy farmers directly visit the paddy procurement centres and sell their produce.

He suggested the farmers to enroll their names in the paddy centres and submit the Xerox copies of the Aadar card, bank pass book and other documents as asked by the officials. He asked the officials to take steps for supplying of paddy from procurement centres to rice mills in 48 hours. Officials of the civil supplies department, paddy procurement centre staff and representatives of the co-operative societies and others were present in the meeting.