Paddy farmers to shed Rs 3,000 cr to millers
Hyderabad: The paddy farmers are dropping target to rice millers’ exploitation in theTelangana State While all eyes get on the TRS large dharna versus the Centre on paddy purchase in Delhi on Monday, the paddy cultivators get on the edge of shedding virtually Rs 3,000 crore as the millers are requiring them to market the paddy at distress rates. Perhaps very first time in Telangana, the paddy farmers are encountering large problem to market their fruit and vegetables listed below the MSP (Minimum Support Price) in the Rabi period.
The let down farming area is anticipating some remedy for Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao that is most likely to participate in the large dharna in the nationwide resources.
The State government was meant to open up paddy purchase centres on April 1 as well as acquire the fruit and vegetables from the farmers straight throughout every farming period. The government has actually introduced the closure of purchase centres in the present Rabi period after the Centre rejected the State’s appeal to acquire paddy straight instead of raw rice.
Millers in Nalgonda, Suryapet as well as Kamareddy area have actually been acquiring paddy listed below the MSP from farmers. Farmers are compelled to market paddy for Rs 1,500 to Rs 1,600 per quintal as versus Rs 1,900. The millers have actually developed organizations in Miryalaguda in Suryapet where they generate paddy in significant amount every period. In old Nalgonda area, the farming area opts for paddy in 2 periods as they have bountiful water sources via canal system under Nagarjuna Sagar task.
T Ravi Kumar from Ramapuram in Chilkuru mandal of Suryapet area claimed that he grew paddy in his 10 acres of land as well as currently offering the fruit and vegetables at reduced rates as the State government did closed the purchase centres. He claimed KCR’s phone call to quit paddy growing in Rabi protested the farmers rate of interest.
It was the government’s obligation to make setups for alternate chopping prior to the farmers planted paddy. In this period, the paddy was grown in 30 lakh acres of land as well as the overall fruit and vegetables is over 70 lakh statistics tonnes. Millers got in arrangement to acquire 20 lakh statistics tonnes of paddy prior to the start of the period. Farmers were left in the stumble after the State as well as the Centre quit purchase. Taking it as a benefit, the millers are making use of the farmers. The cultivators of superfine rice ranges such as Chintla as well as HMT are likewise not obtaining MSP as millers are paying Rs 1,800 per quintal as versus Rs 2,200 MSP in the purchase centres.
From following week, paddy farmers in Warangal, Nizamabad as well as Karimnagar will certainly likewise need to go to the millers to market the fruit and vegetables at the troubled rates. It is approximated that a farmer will certainly sustain a loss of a minimum of Rs 5,000 per acre for not obtaining MSP on paddy thisyear It will certainly be about, Rs 3,000 crore loss to the whole farming area which grew paddy in Rabi thisyear
Nearly 1,000 raw rice mills, a lot of them situated in Suryapet, Nalgonda as well as Warangal areas are active obtaining paddy as well as the supplies are under the procedure of making raw rice. “Once the procurement is over, the millers will create artificial scarcity of old rice in the open market and increase the prices,” claimed a farmer.
