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Untimely rains damaging the paddy, says CLP leader
Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader M. Bhatti Vikramarka has demanded that the State government (Civil Supplies Corporation) move the paddy procured by purchase centres to rice mills without delay as untimely rains were damaging the paddy.
Mr. Vikramarka went round paddy fields in Medepally, Vallabhi, Mutharam and other villages of Mudigonda mandal in Madhira constituency on Monday and interacted with farmers. The farmers brought to the notice of the CLP leader that the millers were reducing the weight of paddy by 3 kg to 6 kg per quintal in the name of wastage even after the produce is weighed and recorded at procurement centres. Once the produce is weighed and billed at the procurement centre, the safety of paddy purchased is the responsibility of the purchase centre and millers and not that of farmers, Mr. Vikramarka said. However, the loss due to rain and others was being forced upon farmers in spite of instructions against
DC visits farms hit by untimely rains
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Deputy Commissioner Bagadi Gautam and a few other senior officers, on Monday, visited the farms badly hit due to untimely rains in Mudigere taluk.
The Hindu had carried a report on the damage caused to coffee and paddy fields on Monday. The news report had featured A.B. Krishne Gowda, a coffee grower of Attigere near Kottigere, who had suffered a huge loss. The officers visited his farm and interacted with Krishne Gowda.
Following the untimely rains last week, coffee beans had fallen on the ground in his farm. Against the expectation of 200 bags of beans in his five-acre farm, he could hardly get 50 bags. He had estimated the loss at ₹6 lakh. Besides him, many growers lost coffee beans spread on drying yards after the harvest. Similarly, paddy growers could not safeguard their yield due to the heavy rains.