The Tamil Nadu authorities on Tuesday urged the Centre to advance the procurement of paddy by one month, to September 1, 2022, as a substitute of October 1, 2022 to safeguard the curiosity of farmers of Tamil Nadu.
The state authorities believes that as Tamil Nadu has skilled a beneficial agricultural season this 12 months, and if the Centre orders to obtain paddy from September 1, that may immensely assist farmers of Tamil Nadu to fetch remunerative value for paddy and realise the advantage of elevated MSP for the kharif advertising and marketing season of 2022.
In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Tamil Nadu chief minister M Stalin requested to situation appropriate directions to the division of agriculture and farmers welfare to advance the procurement of paddy by one month.
Normally, the paddy harvesting season, in late September or early October, would coincide with each south west and north east monsoon, resulting in yield loss or huge crop harm as a consequence of inundation throughout cyclones. But, this 12 months, because of the steps taken by the state authorities, farmers are assured of harvesting their Kuruvai paddy commencing from final week of August, 2022.
“The new MSP for kharif marketing season (KMS), 2022 would be applicable from October 1 onwards. Due to advance and timely initiatives taken by the government of Tamil Nadu, it is expected that Kuruvai paddy harvest would commence from the last week of August itself. I request that suitable instructions may kindly be issued to advance the procurement of paddy by one month, to September 1, 2022,” he stated.
For the primary time since independence, the Mettur reservoir has been opened for Kuruvai paddy cultivation on May 24, 2022, forward of the traditional date of June 12. Due to the considered use of irrigation water over the last paddy season, and as a consequence of helpful rains, the storage place of Mettur reservoir is sort of snug this 12 months, he identified within the letter.
The state authorities had issued orders on April 8, 2022 itself, to take up desilting work of the principle canals and sub-canals for a size of 4,964.11 km in Cauvery delta districts at an outlay of Rs 80 crore and sanctioned an agri enter package deal value Rs 61 crore to farmers of the area.
Quality seeds of excessive yielding paddy varieties and fertilisers have been mobilised in all of the needy locations and farmers have been suggested to finish the transplantation of Kuruvai paddy earlier than the top of June, itself.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”