Lakhs of paddy baggage lying unsold, farmers blame purchase methodology
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Express News Service
BARGARH: Belying the administration’s tall claims of straightforward procurement in Bargarh, lakhs of paddy baggage are however to be lifted from the market yards of Attabira block throughout the district. The delay in procurement is attributed to faulty monitoring practices of the officers concerned. Farmer chief Ramesh Mahapatra acknowledged the officers of Attabira market yards are adopting the fallacious methodology to accumulate paddy. Instead of procuring paddy on a ‘first come, first serve’ basis, the produce is collected chronologically as per the token dates.
“If a farmer has a token issued on today’s date, he is being told that his paddy cannot be procured as those with tokens issued on earlier dates are yet to sell their produce. As a result, farmers are being forced to dump their paddy bags in the open at market yards and wait for their turn,” claimed Mahapatra.
He extra acknowledged even after dumping their produce available on the market yards, farmers are often not constructive if their paddy could be lifted anytime shortly. “They will have to wait till farmers having tokens of previous dates sell their paddy. This is forcing many farmers to sell their paddy directly to the millers.”
On the other hand, farmers prepared for his or her flip are going via arbitrary deduction of paddy on the pretext of top quality. “The officials are deliberately creating such a situation and forcing the farmers to surrender before the millers,” Mahapatra alleged.
Sources acknowledged over 2.5 lakh paddy baggage are presently lying unsold at mandis beneath Attabira regulated market committee (RMC). In the entire Bargarh district, the utmost procurement is recorded in Attabira RMC which collects paddy from the entire Attabira and Bheden blocks. Hence, the procurement course of in Attabira begins spherical each week ahead of in numerous blocks. This 12 months, paddy procurement in Attabira began on May 6.
On Tuesday, farmers staged a stir protesting the delay in lifting their paddy from the Attabira market yard. Following the protest, the native assistant civil supplies officer (ACSO) held a dialogue with the agitating farmers and assured them of wanted movement.
ACSO Dibyasingh Badamali acknowledged every market yard has been given a daily prohibit for procurement. As the entire farmers have harvested their crops, the inflow of paddy to the market yards has elevated not too way back. “We are gradually increasing the procurement limit to clear the unsold paddy,” he added.
Procurement woes
Over 2.5 lakh paddy baggage are presently lying unsold at mandis beneath Attabira RMC
On Tuesday, farmers staged a stir protesting the delay in lifting their paddy
Maximum procurement is recorded in Attabira RMC which collects paddy from two blocks.
BARGARH: Belying the administration’s tall claims of straightforward procurement in Bargarh, lakhs of paddy baggage are however to be lifted from the market yards of Attabira block throughout the district. The delay in procurement is attributed to faulty monitoring practices of the officers concerned. Farmer chief Ramesh Mahapatra acknowledged the officers of Attabira market yards are adopting the fallacious methodology to accumulate paddy. Instead of procuring paddy on a ‘first come, first serve’ basis, the produce is collected chronologically as per the token dates.
“If a farmer has a token issued on today’s date, he is being told that his paddy cannot be procured as those with tokens issued on earlier dates are yet to sell their produce. As a result, farmers are being forced to dump their paddy bags in the open at market yards and wait for their turn,” claimed Mahapatra.
He extra acknowledged even after dumping their produce available on the market yards, farmers are often not constructive if their paddy could be lifted anytime shortly. “They will have to wait till farmers having tokens of previous dates sell their paddy. This is forcing many farmers to sell their paddy directly to the millers.”googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
On the other hand, farmers prepared for his or her flip are going via arbitrary deduction of paddy on the pretext of top quality. “The officials are deliberately creating such a situation and forcing the farmers to surrender before the millers,” Mahapatra alleged.
Sources acknowledged over 2.5 lakh paddy baggage are presently lying unsold at mandis beneath Attabira regulated market committee (RMC). In the entire Bargarh district, the utmost procurement is recorded in Attabira RMC which collects paddy from the entire Attabira and Bheden blocks. Hence, the procurement course of in Attabira begins spherical each week ahead of in numerous blocks. This 12 months, paddy procurement in Attabira began on May 6.
On Tuesday, farmers staged a stir protesting the delay in lifting their paddy from the Attabira market yard. Following the protest, the native assistant civil supplies officer (ACSO) held a dialogue with the agitating farmers and assured them of wanted movement.
ACSO Dibyasingh Badamali acknowledged every market yard has been given a daily prohibit for procurement. As the entire farmers have harvested their crops, the inflow of paddy to the market yards has elevated not too way back. “We are gradually increasing the procurement limit to clear the unsold paddy,” he added.
Procurement woes
Over 2.5 lakh paddy baggage are presently lying unsold at mandis beneath Attabira RMC
On Tuesday, farmers staged a stir protesting the delay in lifting their paddy
Maximum procurement is recorded in Attabira RMC which collects paddy from two blocks.
