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A Central team of officers is anticipated to visit the Cauvery delta within the subsequent few days to examine the problem of accelerating the restrict of moisture content material in paddy, Food Minister R. Kamaraj mentioned.
This adopted a advice made by the State authorities to improve the restrict of moisture content material to 22% from the present stage of 17%, the Minister mentioned.
He claimed that regardless of merchants not coming ahead to procure paddy within the wake of rain within the delta, the authorities have been, even now, procuring paddy with larger stage of moisture content material and sending it for hulling.
The charges for the widespread selection and the grade ‘A’ selection have been ₹1,918 per quintal and ₹1,958 per quintal respectively, Mr. Kamaraj added.
Earlier within the day, the final secretary of the AMMK, T.T.V. Dhinakaran, in a sequence of tweets, accused the State authorities of being negligent in “letting paddy bags get damaged due to rain” within the delta.
He known as for steps to expedite the procurement of paddy.
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