MADURAI: As the procurement of summer cultivation season paddy is coming to a close, farmers have requested authorities concerned to open additional Direct Purchase Centres for selling the crop in Madurai. While the procurement for this Kharif Marketing Season year is 40% lesser than the previous year, official sources from the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation stated that proposals for …
MADURAI/RAMANATHAPURAM: As farmers in Ramanathapuram district kick-starting harvesting season, the civil supplies department inaugurated over 70 direct procurement centres for procuring Samba paddy. Collector Chandran added that overall paddy production is likely to cross four lakh metric tonnes this year. As a result, the civil supplies department has fixed a target of one lakh metric tonnes, the highest in the …
Chennai’s rice bowl, Tiruvallur district, recently opened 17 direct procurement centres as part of its preparations for the paddy harvest this Sornavari season. “A similar amount would be kept aside by farmers for their own use and another 50,000 tonnes would go to private buyers. All the centres are to come up on government properties and so e-seva maiyyams, regulated …
RAMANATHAPURAM: With the cultivation season soon to commence following the arrival of Vaigai water, a special proposal has been sent for establishing around 100 direct procurement centres for procuring samba paddy in Ramanathapuram. According to sources, August-September is one of the biggest cultivation seasons in Ramanathapuram, as much as 1.3 lakh hectares of agricultural lands would be used for samba …
