Paddy procurement impasse ends
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The impasse over the procurement of paddy has ended.
Officials mentioned that an settlement had been reached between the Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation (Supplyco) and mill house owners for the procurement together with in Kuttanad and Palakkad. As per the settlement reached, mills would cooperate with the Supplyco for a interval of six months.
Earlier, mills determined to steer clear of procurement after they failed to achieve an settlement with the federal government over compensation for the procured paddy, which bought destroyed within the 2018 floods.
Following this, the federal government determined to rope in cooperative societies to obtain paddy straight from farmers. However, a scarcity of storage, amongst different services for cooperative societies within the district, resulted in a delay within the procurement.
On Tuesday, representatives of mill house owners’ associations met Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. As per the route of the Chief Minister, a gaggle of Ministers later held discussions with the representatives and reached an interim settlement. The Ministers promised the representatives to carry one other spherical of discussions within the presence of Chief Minister within the close to future on the problems raised by them.
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