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Paddy acreage high this year: Joint Collector
The Joint Collector said that it was the responsibility of the farmers to provide polished food grains to the millers if they want minimum support price to their produce. He urged the farmers to purchase the food grains from the purchase centers set up by the State government.According to the report submitted by the
Nizamabad: District Joint Collector A Ravinder Reddy said that the Nizamabad district has the least amount of CMR dues in the State. Participating in an awareness camp on the procurement of paddy during the Kharif season for the year 2016-17 at the Rajiv Gandhi auditorium in the town on Wednesday, he said that there was a festive atmosphere in the district as all the reservoirs and lakes were full to the brim due to the heavy rains that lashed the district over the last one week. The farmers and the millers would be greatly benefitted by this as paddy could be produced on a large scale, he added. He said that there were 32 IKP centres in the district.
The Joint Collector said that it was the responsibility of the farmers to provide polished food grains to the millers if they want minimum support price to their produce. He urged the farmers to purchase the food grains from the purchase centers set up by the State government.According to the report submitted by the Agriculture Department, 5 lakh metric tonnes of paddy would be produced this year and another 3 lakh tonnes in the near future, he added.
Ravinder Reddy said that the purchasing centres set up on a temporary basis earlier, have been made into permanent purchasing centres by the government.He said that the State government would purchase food grains on a large scale during this year, unlike last year and would take steps to handover the grains produced b y farmers to the rice milers.
He appealed to the lorry owners to make arrangements for transporting the food grains and told them not to create any hurdles for the farmers in this regard. He said that photographs would be taken while loading and unloading food grains from the lorries, according to the guidelines.District Cooperative Marketing Society chairman Gangadhar Patwari, DSO Krishna Prasad and several officials of the Agricultural Department were present.
