No procurement centres for paddy cultivated in rabi
The Hindu
Govt to buy entire kharif produce
The State government will not open procurement centres for paddy cultivated in the current rabi as the Centre has refused to purchase the stocks but the Rytu Bandhu assistance of ₹5,000 an acre to farmers will continue for the season.
The government, however, will buy the entire produce of kharif though the Centre had committed to accept only 40 lakh tonnes of custom milled rice while the yield in the season was much high, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao said at a press conference after a Cabinet meeting on Monday.
He said there was no question of procuring paddy produced in rabi as the Centre has expressed helplessness to take boiled rice that was generated in rice mills out of the produce. The millers turned out boiled rice out of rabi crop to avoid broken rice which was the result of agro climatic conditions when temperatures shoot up beyond 35 degree C after February 25. Without boiling, the outage of raw rice was only 50%. The method of boiling was suggested by the Food Corporation of India itself. And, now the FCI also went back.