Civil Supplies Dept prepares for Paddy purchase in Rabi season

Hyderabad : Commissioner for Civil Supplies C.V. Anand said that all arrangements are been made for purchasing paddy from farmers in the coming Rabi season which starts from next month. He suggested officials to be very cautious in this matter as it is dealing with lakhs of farmers.

The Commissioner said all necessary actions to be taken to see that farmers should not face any difficulty in selling their paddy at Minimum Support Price.

Anand held a review meeting with Officials on Rabi Paddy Procurement at Civil Supplies Bhavan on Friday. A wall poster was released on this occasion to spread awareness among farmers on Minimum Support Price and Online transactions.

The Commissioner said that Civil Supplies Department initially decided to purchase 37 lakh metric ton paddy. In the months of April 12.74 LMT, May 18.20 LMT, June 5.46 LMT of paddy yield is expected. For this 3259 Paddy Purchase Centres (PPC’s) are been arranged, said Anand. IKP’s - 1081, PACS (Primary Agricultural Co-operative Societies) – 1987 and others - 191 will be maintained. He advised officials to arrange PPC’s in reachable distance to farmers. He directed officials to take necessary action in arranging additional purchase centres if required immediately.

Basic requirements like Humidity checking machines, Paddy cleaners, Winnowing Machines, Moisture Metres, Drinking Water, Toilets, etc., should be kept available at the centres.

Minimum Support Price should be compulsorily to be paid to farmers. MSP for Ordinary paddy is Rs. 1550, Grade ‘A’ paddy is Rs. 1590. Awareness in farmers should be made to get paddy to PPC’s according to the standards of Central government.

Joint Collectors should consult rice millers district wise and allotment of paddy be made according to the capacity of the mills.

Allotment should be made according to the capacity of the mill. Paddy allotment 32 MT mill be allotted 3000 MTs, 40 MT - 4000 MTs, 50 MT - 5000 MTs, 60 MT - 6000 MTs, more than 60 MT - 8000 MTs paddy will be allotted. In any condition not more than 8000 MTs paddy will be allotted to any mill. Commissioner ordered millers should submit Custom Milling Rice (CMR) before September 30. In any case if CMR is submitted after due date no milling charges will be paid. Millers who are black listed and booked under criminal case, 6A case from this year 1st January will not be allotted paddy.

The Commissioner ordered officials on paddy allotment to millers based on requisitions from District Rice Millers Association and guarantee from two millers who are financially strong. In any case if CMR is not submitted to government before due date it should be recovered from the two guarantee millers. If excess due is there then it should be collected from milling / transport charges paid to District Rice Millers Association.