A meeting for the paddy procurement of Rabi season was held here on Wednesday under the chairmanship of district Collector Pramod Das. He stressed on transparency and ensuring that farmers are not harassed.
He informed that the last Kharif paddy procurement target had been achieved. The Deputy Director Agriculture besides informing that there would be around 1.27 lakh MT surplus paddy in the Rabi harvesting, said the MSP for A grade would be Rs 1,510 and general grade Rs 1,470.
As per the direction of the Union Government, the procurement duration would be from May 1 till to June end and the duration won’t be extended. The registration for farmers while began from March 20 would continue till April 30.
However, for registration the mobile number and Adhaar would be mandatory. The procurement would be in all days except on Thursday and holidays. From each farmer while maximum 50 quintal paddy would procured, the maximum amount procured by PACS would be 1,000 quintal. The officials have been asked to supply adequate quantities of polythene and tarpaulin in the centres.
Das, besides urging the officials to keep the interest of farmers as prime object, also directed the CSO to open a control room for procurement. MlA Ananta Das, PD DRDA Sukanta Nayak, Sub collector Baleswar Udaynaryan Das, Sub collector Nilgiri Ramchandra Palta and CSO Ghasisram Murmu among others were present.