A meeting of the district level paddy collection was held on Friday here. Attending the meeting, Health Minister Naba Kishore Das ensured that all the farmers of the district would get all the facilities as per Government norms. He sought cooperation of all to obey the Government guidelines of Diwali this year in view of the Corona pandemic.
The meeting held under the Chairmanship of District Collector Saroj Kumar Samal was attended by Zilla Parishad Chairman Laxminarayan Patel, SP Rahul PR, representative of Bargarh MP Raghunandan Panda, representative of Brajrajnagar MLA Biswanath Nayak, farmers representatives, millers and other district level officers.
A detailed discussion was held for paddy procurement in the current Kharif season. It was decided to collect paddy from November 25. Target set for collection was 558,823 quintal paddy this year through 41 paddy collection centres and 32 PACS of the district.Aadhar Card has been made mandatory for sale of paddy by farmers within 30 days from receipt of token and special care will be taken so that the farmers of 19 mouzas under Lakhanpur block without revenue village status do not face any difficulties. The farmers representatives requested to provide all ancillary facilities in the paddy sale centres, supplying gunny bags to farmers early, arrange to sell surplus paddy and solve any problems in paddy sale immediately.
The district Collector suggested the farmers to bring dry and clean paddy and remain present personally or through their representatives. He sought cooperation of all to observe Diwali only by lighting lamps due to corona.