The State Government has commenced preparations at Primary Agriculture Credit Cooperative Societies for procurement of paddy on support price from farmers during the Kharif Marketing Year 2014-15.
The Government also clarified that at any cost, registration of farmers will not be done after starting paddy procurement at societies and the same would not be purchased from the unregistered farmers.
The time-bound programme for paddy procurement will soon be declared; but before starting procurement, registration of all farmers will be done mandatorily, officials stated.
In this regard, Principal Secretary, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department, Alok Shukla while holding a meeting of all district collectors of the State through video conferencing reviewed preparations made in districts for the registration of farmers.
He said that registration of farmers will be done from September 1 to 30. Thereafter, the farmer, who could not register name within the given time frame, can register in the Tehsil office of the area up to October 15.
But, after October 15, no name will be registered at any cost, as the district administration and the cooperative societies will have to engage in paddy procurement.
Shukla told the collectors to register names of farmers of their respective districts as soon as possible. In the application for registration, the farmer will have to enter all required information including mobile number, so that the Food Department could issue necessary information to them through SMS from time to time.
According to the directives of the State Government, for the registration of farmers, arrangement of computer, printer, data entry operator has been made in all cooperative societies and proper publicity of it is being done at local level.
He said that for the registration, each farmer has to give one passport size photograph, EPIC number of voter I-card, mobile number, copy of loan book, information about total cultivable area and paddy cultivation area, bank account number and cooperative society membership number.
Each farmer has to submit records of the given information to the society office, so that their registration could be done under the set process.
Along with the application, the farmer has to give information like National Health Insurance Scheme card, PAN, driving licence, Aadhar card, ration card number, loan account and Kisan Credit Card. Registration of the farmer who cultivate in Adhiya and Regha will be done only when he brings the letter of the land owner farmer, in which the land owner agrees that he has given the land on Adhiya and Regha.
If any farmer has any objection about registration, he can submit application to the cooperative society concerned up to October 7, 2014.
The farmer can also appeal against the decision of the society to Tehsildar within 15 days. The Tehsildar will solve such appeal within 15 days. After registration, information about the registered farmer will be uploaded on the website of Food department and pasted on the notice board of the village panchayat concerned.