Collectors instructed to inform cotton procurement centres instantly after completion of CCI bids course of

Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao has requested the Marketing Department authorities to inform the ginning mills that will emerge because the profitable bidders in tenders referred to as for cotton procurement in order that buy of the produce is taken up on the earliest.

At a digital overview assembly held on Sunday over cotton procurement, the Minister stated {that a} whole of 328 ginning mills had participated within the bids invited by the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) for procurement, and tenders have been opened on October 10 to finish the technical bids course of by October 11.

He instructed District Collectors to inform the ginning mills that will emerge as bidders for procurement in order that the method was sped up. He steered them to make farmers enrol their names together with cell numbers within the “Kapas Kisan” app of the CCI on the market of cotton on the minimal help worth.

The Minister requested officers to let farmers log into the app primarily based on their Aadhaar numbers and OTP generated by them if cell numbers weren’t out there. Farmers who weren’t within the CCI database also needs to be allowed to register afresh.

Letter to Union MInister

He addressed a letter to Union Minister for Agriculture Shivraj Singh Chouhan with a request to raise the restrict of procuring 25% of the entire produce of sesamum, bengalgram, groundnut, soybean, greengram and others beneath the value help scheme at MSP and likewise embody maize and jowar beneath PSS.

At one other overview assembly held on Saturday, Minister for Civil Supplies N. Uttam Kumar Reddy acknowledged that the Civil Supplies Corporation was planning to acquire 80 lakh tonnes of paddy out of the estimated manufacturing of 148.03 lakh tonnes from 66.80 lakh acres. The 80 lakh tonnes procurement would come with 40 lakh tonnes every of wonderful and customary varieties.

Of the 8,342 procurement centres deliberate for the Kharif advertising season, 1,205 have been already opened and had began procurement. Of the entire procurement centres, IKP would deal with/arrange 3,517, PACS 4,259 and others 566. The authorities was planning to finish the Kharif paddy procurement by the top of January second week.