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Rythu Sangham demands MSP for NLR-34449 paddy variety

HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh Rytu Sangham (APRS) affiliated to CPI(M) reiterated its demand on Sunday for market intervention by the State government for ensuring minimum support price to ‘Nellore Sambalu (Sannalu)' (NLR-34449) paddy variety.

Addressing at a press conference here, general secretary of APRS, S.Rama Rao and vice-president B. Chandra Reddy stated that procurement of this particular variety of paddy was completely stopped by millers, middlemen, traders and government agencies for more than a week now. As a result, huge stocks of Sannalu variety paddy were piled up in market yards and in the farm fields due to lack of storage facility with the farmers.

Due to large scale encouragement by the State government, in the backdrop of about 50 lakh tonnes shortage of food grains production due to drought and floods, this variety of paddy was cultivated in about 6 lakh acres in Nellore, Nalgonda, Guntur, Khammam, Prakasam, Krishna, Kadapa and Nizamabad districts to fill the gap to some extent. It had given good yield with an average two tonnes per acre. However, the variety of paddy that was once procured at Rs.1,100 to Rs. 1,200 per quintal was down to Rs. 850 initially and to Rs. 650 later before the procurement was halted completely. They alleged that some sections of traders, millers and middlemen colluded to keep the variety away from trading so that they could make hey by procuring other varieties below MSP. Other varieties were being traded Rs.100 to Rs. 150 below MSP per quintal, the APRS leaders stated. The situation had arisen as procurement by FCI, Markfed, Civil Supplies Department and IKP had not taken off practically, they pointed out.

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