The State Government will begin registration of farmers for the procurement of paddy on support price during the kharif marketing year 2014-15 from September 1 next. Registration of farmers will be done through ‘Seva Sahkari Samitis’ from September 1 to 30.
The Chhattisgarh State Cooperative Marketing Federation limited has imparted farmers’ registration related training to office-bearers and employees cooperative societies at the district headquarters, officials said.
In the training held in two sessions, detailed information about directives of the State government, filling of registration form, uploading on software etc has been given through a presentation.
In the first session, training has been imparted to the officers and employees of Navagarh, Akaltara, Baloda, Pamgarh and Bamhnideeh development blocks and in the second session, employees and officers of Sakti, Jaijaipur, Malkharouda and Dabhra development blocks have been imparted training.
In the training, Additional Collector SK Sharma said that under the support price policy, the State government has started procurement of paddy from farmers. For this, registration of farmers would be started in the cooperative societies of their area from September 1, which would continue up to September 30.
The farmer, who could not register name within time, can register his name in the Tehsil office up to October 15. But, after October 15, no name will be registered at any cost.
He has appealed to all farmers to get their name registered in the cooperative societies within the given time frame.
For registration, the farmer has to give one passport size photograph, EPIC number of voter I-card, copy of loan book, information about total cultivable area and paddy cultivation area, bank account number and cooperative society membership number. Along with the application, they have to give information like national health insurance scheme card, PAN, driving licence, Aadhar card, ration card number, loan account and Kisan Credit Card.
The officers said that at any cost registration of farmers would not be done after starting paddy procurement at societies and paddy would not be purchased from the unregistered farmers.
The officers said that the State government has fixed the minimum support price for thick grain at Rs 1,360 per quintal and that of slim grain at Rs 1,400 per quintal for the kharif year 2014-15.
The officers said that names of such farmers would only be registered at society-level, who had sold their paddy in the societies in any year of the last five years. Registration process of such farmers who have not sold paddy in the societies during the last five years will be undertaken after examination of witness by the Tehsildar.