More paddy purchase centres sought in delta

The State government must instruct the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation (TNCSC) to open more number of direct purchase centres (DPCs) as paddy harvest is peaking in the Cauvery delta, said Federa

The State government must instruct the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation (TNCSC) to open more number of direct purchase centres (DPCs) as paddy harvest is peaking in the Cauvery delta, said Federation of Farmers Associations of Cauvery Delta Districts. In a representation to the government, its general secretary Arupathy Kalyanam has also called for stationing mobile DPCs so that the harvested paddy can be procured from the field itself. “This will help prevent overcrowding at the DPCs. The mobile DPCs can procure paddy even if two farmers with five acres each were harvesting paddy in a village,” he said.