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Government constitutes paddy board

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The government has constituted the proposed State Paddy Board with Minister for Agriculture as chairperson.

Agriculture Production Commissioner and Director of Agriculture will be the vice-chairman and secretary, respectively, of the Board.

The Board will oversee activities of various agencies in the promotion of paddy production and take care of supply of various inputs and subsidies to farmers. It will attend to irrigation and mechanisation of paddy production.

The Board will prepare long-term plans for increasing paddy production, issue directives for implementation of schemes and review of the working of seed authority and paddy development agencies.

It will have the secretaries of Irrigation, Revenue, Finance and Agriculture, Vice-Chancellor of Kerala Agriculture University, Head of the Pattambi Rice Research Station, three district panchayat presidents, chairman and vice-chairman of paddy development agency, Principal Agriculture Officers of Alappuzha, Thrissur and Palakkad and three representatives of farmers as its members.

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