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G. Gurumurthy

Coimbatore , Dec. 3

Thanks to surplussing rivers and surcharged groundwater table, Tamil Nadu is revising its crop estimation this year.

Its overall crop area is expected to exceed the target by about four lakh hectares (10 lakh acres) at least, the State Agriculture Minister, Mr Veerapandi Arumugham, said here. The State has targeted a food production of 95.35 lakh tonnes this year.

Of the 39.70 lakh hectares crop area, rice accounts for 21.70 lakh hectares with a production target of 78.10 lakh tonnes. The area already covered under rice is 15.36 lakh hectares, millets and cereals constitute another 10.50 lakh hectares (9.48 lakh hectares already sown) and 7.50 lakh hectares (4.17 lakh already sown) with a respective production targets of 13.65 lakh tonnes and 3.6 lakh tonnes respectively.

The Agriculture Minister told mediapersons here that at the beginning of October, the State Government had procured about three lakh tonnes of paddy for which it had fixed procurement price at Rs 650 (A grade) and Rs 620 (B grade) per quintal, which includes Rs 40 as State incentive.

With regard to promoting an agriculture export processing facility, the Minister said the Government was looking at the scope of using the a defunct horticulture farm on a 50 acres area near Sulur for setting up an horticulture export processing facility and it was also exploring whether the additional land needed for it could be secured from the nearby Sulur regulated market committee.

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