DPCs still remain as saviours of farmers
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Direct purchase centres of the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation have once again proved that they are the saviours of farmers in Thanjavur and Tiruvarur districts be it a normal cultivation season or not as they have almost received the entire quantity of paddy harvested during this samba/thaladi season. Around 1000 DPCs were opened in Thanjavur and Tiruvarur districts during the current samba/thaladi season which was marred by unseasonal rains.
According to the Agriculture Department sources, farmers having their fields located on high terrains in these two districts such as Thirukattupalli, Nannilam and other areas were able to harvest good quality of paddy while others ended up harvesting drenched and slightly inferior quality paddy as their fields bore the brunt of nature’s fury.
More students turn up at noon meal centres in government schools
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More students turn up at noon meal centres in government schools after the start of classes for standard IX from Monday. The noon meal centres have started functioning after classes for standard X resumed last month. Provisions were given to the students at their homes during the lockdown. Each student was provided with rice, dhal and eggs.
‘While cooked food is provided to students of classes IX and X, to those at lower levels, supply of provisions has been sustained. Primary and upper primary children were provided with 100 gm and 150 gm of rice a day respectively,’ Rajendran, secretary of Tiruchi unit of Tamil Nadu Noon Meal Workers’ Association, said. On all working days, barring Saturdays, eggs are provided every day to students when they attend classes. Eggs weighing 46 - 52 gm each are supplied twice a week to nutritious meal centres.
Paddy stocked in the open near a DPC at Ammapettai in Thanjavur district.
A protest was held by the Communist Party of India (CPI) on Friday demanding immediate opening of direct purchase centres (DPCs) at Ammapettai and surrounding areas.
According to R. Senthilkumar, Ammapettai, CPI Union Secretary, the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation has not opened a permanent DPC at Ammapettai and even temporary DPCs that were usually set up at Puliyakudi, Pallavaroyanpettai, Puthur and Kokkeri around Ammapettai during the Samba harvest season had not been opened.
The harvested crop has been stocked in open in large quantity near these centres for the past few days, he claimed and added that the corporation opens DPCs only at the places where the farmers staged demonstrations demanding opening of the centres.
Streamline paddy procurement at DPCs, say farmers
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Delta farmers have suggested certain measures to the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation to ensure that their produce alone be procured at the direct purchase centres (DPCs) opened in the delta districts during this samba/thaladi season.
In their appeal, they have pointed out that in the absence of a stringent mechanism, farmers from other districts and traders dispose their stock at the DPCs opened in Thanjavur, Nagapattinam, Tiruvarur and Mayiladuthurai districts that have been set up exclusively to purchase the paddy harvested by Delta farmers.
P. Kalyanam of Arupathi, general secretary, Federation of Farmers Associations of Delta Districts (FFADD), has called upon the District Administrations to post special teams to monitor the movement of paddy through check-posts in the district borders during the procurement period.