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With an aim to give farmers due price for their produce, the Madhya Pradesh Government will begin procurement of paddy crop on minimum support price from November 3 this year.
The procurement will conclude on January 25 next year.
While common paddy will be procured on a support price of Rs 1,360 per quintal, Grade A paddy will be procured at Rs 1,400 per quintal.
The Government expects to procure 17 lakh MT paddy this year, an official release said today.
Madhya Pradesh State Civil Supplies Corporation will procure paddy in all districts of Sagar, Rewa and Shahdol divisions and in Jabalpur division’s Katni, Narsinghpur, Chhindwara, Mandla and Seoni districts, it said.
The State Cooperative Marketing Federation will procure paddy in the remaining districts.
A computerised receipt against procurement of paddy will be given to farmers. It will contain the name, bank account number and payable amount. It will bear the signature of procurement body’s in-charge.
Directives have been given to transfer funds in the farmers’ concerned bank accounts within seven days.
Registration of farmers will be mandatory for procurement. They will be intimated through SMS to bring the produce for sale at the procurement centres five days in advance.
A control room for paddy procurement is being set up at the Directorate of Food & Civil Supplies (Vindhyachal Bhavan) which will function from November 3, 2014 to January 25, 2015 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. it added.
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