The Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation has registered an appreciable procurement of paddy during the samba season which ended by mid-April this year. Now, the authorities have turned their attention to hulling the paddy and are despatching the same to modern rice mills.
Bulk quantities of paddy stocked at three centres by the TNCSC in the district have been despatched for hulling official sources told The Hindu here on Saturday. Paddy had been stocked at Modern Rice Mill area, Adavathur, and Poolankulathupatti near Ramji Nagar in the city.
The paddy, which was stocked under cap storage pattern, was moved to the hulling centres.
Official sources said the procurement was appreciable this season. In fact, the TNCSC had extended the purchase of paddy at the Direct Procurement Centres well beyond April in Puliyancholai where farmers had raised late “samba” variety. “Farmers of the villages in and around Puliyancholai had raised the crop in a cluster of villages and harvested about 350 tonnes which was marketed at the Direct Procurement Centres at Alathudaiyanpatti and B. Mettur,” the source said.
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Although the TNCSC had introduced online disbursement of money to farmers, many farmers preferred spot payment.
“And, we made special arrangements for disbursement by cash,” the source said. Winnowing machines had been allotted to all the DPCs for ensuring procurement free from dust and husks.
