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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

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Kerala Civil Supplies to take procured paddy

Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation will take the paddy procured by various cooperative societies in Palakkad, Thrissur, Alappuzha and Kottayam district last season "without causing any loss to the societies," the Minister for Civil Supplies, Adoor Prakash, said here on Monday.

Briefing media after a meeting with the office-bearers of 44 societies involved in the procurement exercise, the Minister said the corporation would begin accepting the procured paddy on Tuesday.

Mr. Prakash did not say what price the corporation would be offering the societies for the procured paddy. "The societies will not incur any loss," he said.

The societies had procured paddy promising the farmers prices ranging from Rs.730 to Rs.770 a quintal.

In most of the regions, the announced price is yet to reach the hands of the farmers.

Representatives of the societies, who attended the meeting called by the Minister, privately confessed that, in most of the cases, the societies had paid only around Rs.550 a quintal to the farmers.

Farmers have been assured by the societies that the balance amount would be paid to them as and when the Government makes good the difference between the announced price and the price the paddy fetches when sold.

Mr. Prakash said the Civil Supplies Corporation would hand over the paddy collected from the societies to selected rice mills.

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