Farmers stage massive protest against slow pace of paddy procurement
The Hindu
Ryots complained of official apathy
Distraught over the alleged tardy pace of purchase of paddy at various designated procurement centres in the district, scores of farmers took to the streets in Jagtial town on Friday vociferously demanding urgent steps to ramp up the paddy procurement drive to mitigate their woes.
A large number of farmers from various mandals took out a rally from the old bus stand to the Collectorate under the aegis of the Rythu Ikya Vedika to highlight the difficulties being faced by them in disposing of the paddy produce in the current marketing season.
Mild tension prevailed in front of the Collectorate when a section of the agitated farmers tried to enter into the Collectorate amid sloganeering. The angry farmers raised slogans against the alleged official apathy towards their woes, aggravated by the recent spell of unseasonal rains.
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