Food Minister refutes Palaniswamis allegation of insufficient paddy procurement

The Food and Civil Supplies Minister R. Sakkarapani has refuted the allegation of Leader of Opposition Edappadi Ok. Palaniswami that the DMK authorities was not taking steps to obtain sufficient paddy from farmers within the delta area. 

In an in depth press notice, the Food and Civil Supplies Minister claimed the Opposition chief was offering false details about paddy procurement from delta farmers. Mr. Sakkarapani stated because the DMK authorities got here to energy, the apply of procuring paddy had been superior to September as a substitute of October ensuing within the safeguarding of paddy cultivation from floods. 

Also, the Chief Minister M.Ok. Stalin had convened a gathering, on October 2, of the assorted departments together with the Food and Civil Supplies to hurry up the paddy cultivation. Based on this assembly, paddy procurement was carried out within the districts of Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Mayiladuthurai and Cuddalore, and the grains saved in godowns. 

The DMK authorities has been taking a number of steps for the event of the paddy farmers and as a part of this for the monetary 12 months 2025-26 the State witnessed file cultivation of paddy for the Kuruvai season by rising the cultivation lands to six.13 lakh acres and in addition doubling the procurement. The Civil provides division has opened 1,805 paddy procurement centres and these centres have been working on all days together with Sundays and procurement was being carried out. 

While through the AIADMK regime of 10 years the overall paddy procurement stood at 1.80 crore metric tonnes, the DMK authorities had surpassed the procurement to 1.94 crore metric tonnes inside 53 months. 

Mr. Sakkarapani additionally claimed that the AIADMK authorities failed to extend the inducement value to the farmers for 10 years whereas the DMK authorities has been repeatedly rising the inducement value to farmers.