Paddy procurement: Call to guarantee openness in payment to farmers

Vijayawada: Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has actually highlighted the requirement to guarantee openness in payment to farmers throughout paddy procurement. He was chairing a top-level evaluation conference on the procurement under a brand-new system with farming minister Kakani Govardhan Reddy and civil products minister Karumuri Venkata Nageswara Rao here on Monday. The chief minister mentioned that under the brand-new system, farmers would get MSP for the paddy obtained from them and there would be no reduction of any kind. “For the very first time in the state, we have actually gotten rid of the function of millers in the procurement procedure,” he stated. “Keep a tab on the performance of the brand-new system and address issues if any,” he asked authorities and stated they should prepare a price quote of the quantum of paddy to be obtained and organize gunny bags appropriately. He stated there’s requirement to guarantee responsibility in the repayment of transportation and labour charges to the farmers throughout procurement and laid tension on openness in making the payment to farmers. “Make the payment under direct advantage transfer plan from the civil materials corporation,” he stated. Describing the issues in packing the information on the app created for paddy procurement, due to absence of net connection, the CM felt the requirement to offer a center in which those who feed information on the app might do so in offline mode when no web signals are discovered and to publish such information in the app immediately when they get internet connection. He required keeping huge posters at Rythu Bharosa Kendras on ‘paddy procurement and purchases’. “Provide such details to farmers on their phones in both audio and video formats, so that they would understand all advancements in the paddy procurement,” he stated. The CM required establishing standard procedure (SoP) on the function of district civil materials supervisors vis-a-vis paddy procurement and felt the requirement to have correct tracking of execution of the SOPs so that there would be no abnormalities and corruption in paddy procurement. The CM highlighted the significance of producing awareness amongst the farmers on growing of alternate crops like millets and asked the authorities to guarantee their supply to the farmers if they wished to raise them through the civil products department based on their requirement. …
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