Farmers of Laikera and Kirmira blocks in Jharsuguda district are facing difficulties while selling paddy in the Maa Samleswari Rice Mill and the RNSN Rice Mill at Bagdihi.
The paddy purchase policy has been a flop show even if the State Government has been formulating hundreds of policy one after another, said the aggrieved farmers.
Taking all government schemes on one hand, the farmers are being harassed by the policy of millers. They also alleged that the millers are posing themselves as all in all in paddy procurement process.
The farmers said that they would bring their paddy to the market place where quality evaluation would be done in the presence of farmers, RMC, members of the farmers association and millers, but the millers are not obeying rules under different pleas.
Hence the poor farmers are forced to take their paddy to mills where 3 kg a quintal is reduced in the name of FAQ and even more than that. They alleged that weighbridge authorities have a nexus with the millers and are cheating them.
The farmers have suffered immense losses as they didn’t get fair price for their paddy, said Dharnidhar, a farmer of Laikera.
The farmers have demanded stringent action against the millers. The CSO has refused to comment on the issue.
