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Rice millers brought under control, farmers get MSP
Under the CMR, the State government initially purchases husked rice from the farmers and later allocates it to various mills for processing. Under the levy price policy, the rice millers are permitted to sell a certain percentage of rice procured by them in the open market and the remaining levy rice is again collected by the government agencies at a minimum support price. The State government dec
Kamareddy: Gone are the days when rice millers used to dictate terms to the agricultural market in selling their food grains. It used to be very difficult to get back the rice from them given under the Custom Milling Rice (CMR) quota. However, with the government setting up purchasing centres and the officials of the civil supplies department acting tough on the directions of the Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, the millers are returning the milled rice immediately to the government. They have returned 2,75,430 quintals of rice and this is the outcome of some of the reforms undertaken in the civil supplies department.
Under the CMR, the State government initially purchases husked rice from the farmers and later allocates it to various mills for processing. Under the levy price policy, the rice millers are permitted to sell a certain percentage of rice procured by them in the open market and the remaining levy rice is again collected by the government agencies at a minimum support price. The State government decided to set up large number of purchasing centres to enable the farmers to sell their produce at a minimum support price without being exploited by the middlemen or brokers.
Initially, the officials estimated that the government would be able to purchase one lakh of food grains at various purchasing centres and review meetings were conducted in the district in this regard in which the Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives Pocharam Srinivas Reddy and District Collector N Satyanarayana took part.However, they were able to collect more than what they imagined. A total of 1.20 lakh metric tonnes of good grains were collected in all the 147 purchasing centres in the district. As many as 35,000 farmers were paid Rs 147 crore in the process.
The District Collector allocates the quota or grains to the rice millers directly on the basis of the capacities of the millers. For milling one quintal of rice, each miller was being paid Rs 32. According to estimates, while 79,000 metric tonnes of rice has to return under CMR, the civil supplied department has got back 27, 543 metric tonnes of rice, which is 34. 5 per cent of the total allocated grains. The millers are returning the rice fast without creating any hurdles as District Collector Satyanarayana, Joint Collector Sathaiah and district civil supplies officer Ramesh are closing monitoring them.
The rice that is returned after milling has to be supplied to the hostels of various schools under the fine rice scheme taken up on a prestigious note by the government. In order to implement this, 550 metric tonnes of rice (5,500 quintals) are needed.Earlier, rice had to be imported from the Andhra region, incurring a lot of expenditure. But now, there is no need. The government is taking the necessary steps taking into consideration the needs of the district.
The government set up a large number of food grains purchasing centres, thus, cutting the rice milers to size. As a result, the rice millers are now trying to keep the farmers in good humour by offering minimum support price to them.Now, the farmers are coming to the government purchasing centres to sell their produce so that they may not be taken for a ride by the middlemen or millers. They are hoping to make some profits.
-BY Ambeer Rajasekhar
