Raipur, November 25, 2011
The members of Youth Congress (YC) led by their state vice president Deepak Mishra submitted a memorandum to Agriculture Minister Chandrashekhar Sahu and informed him about the problems of farmers at paddy procurement centres.
Mishra said the YC teams visited different procurement centres across the state and took stock of the paddy purchase procedures. “We found that the farmers were facing inconvenience during procurement process,” he said.
He said due to lack of transportation facility to carry paddy from procurement centres to godowns and less storage space at centres, the farmers had to either form long queue to wait for their turn to sell paddy or to return home on excessive delay. He said some of the farmers compelled to sell their paddy to middlemen when their turn did not come even after waiting for three-four days.
Mishra further informed that the farmers’ whose crops got blackened or partially damaged due to industrial pollution were being sent back by the procurement centres. He urged the minister to ask procurement centres to purchase paddy from such farmers at minimum support price (MSP).
Pointing that the centres do not have adequate gunny sacks, Mishra said even the available ones were not in good condition and majority were torn. “The crops of the farmers are not being weighed timely due to lack of gunny sacks,” he said.
Mishra also informed about complaints of several farmers that their crops were being weighed less. “The farmers are also facing problem due to malfunction moisture meters,” he said.
The minister assured the YC members to quickly take positive step on their information regarding farmers’ problems. During meeting with the minister, Mishra was accompanied by Manish Dayal, Nitin Thakur, Naresh Gadhpal, Ankit Chakravarti, Ashish Dwivedi, Bablu Raza,Waseem Qasif, etc.
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