State not taking up rabi procurement: Minister
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‘Govt. to regulate the arrivals of produce into market yards’
Agriculture Minister Singireddy Niranjan Reddy requested agricultural advertising officers to arrange a plan to manage the arrivals of rabi produce into market yards, though the State authorities is not taking up procurement.
In a gathering with officers held right here on Saturday, he made it clear that there was no risk of presidency taking up procurement of the farm produce as a part of minimal help value (MSP) operations because the new farm legal guidelines haven’t any provision of MSP. Stating that it was the Centre that needed to determine on the matter of MSP, he urged the officers to clarify to the farming neighborhood in regards to the State authorities’s incapability to take up procurement this season.
He, nonetheless, said that the federal government would regulate the arrivals into market yards to forestall glut, which may result in synthetic stoop within the value of commodities, in addition to creating scarcity of storage services. He requested the officers to offer alternative of buying and selling in all of the 191 market yards and 72 sub-market yards within the State.
As per present estimates, paddy is prone to be cultivated in about 50 lakh acres and the manufacturing is prone to be about 1.13 crore tonnes. He instructed the agriculture extension officers to make sure 100% crop reserving in order to manage the arrivals into market yards and to assist the division difficulty coupons to farmers to carry their produce to markets in a scheduled method.
Stating that delay in harvest of rabi crop may end in losses attributable to premature rains, the Minister advised the officers to coach farmers in regards to the necessity to finish harvesting earlier than March-end.
Secretary (Agriculture) B. Janardhan Reddy, Director of Marketing G. Lakshmi Bai, Director of Horticulture L. Venkatrami Reddy, Managing Director of TS-Markfed V. Bhaskara Chary, all District Agricultural Officers and advertising officers participated within the assembly held at Bowenpally market.
