Following bountiful rains and expected bumper harvesting of paddy crop during this rabi season, the Karimnagar district administration will open one paddy procurement centres every five kilometers in the villages.
This facility will benefit of farming community by helping them sell their produce and procure minimum support price near their fields.
MSP centres
Collector Sarfaraz Ahmed said that they had decided to open 42 Indira Kranthi Patham (IKP) procurement centres and the Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS) of each village would open 250 centres to procure paddy from the fields.
Initially the district administration would open procurement centres in Ramadugu, Huzurabad, Chigurumamidi and Saidapur mandals and later extend them to remaining mandals, he added.
The Government will provide a minimum support price (MSP) of ₹ 1510 per quintal of ‘A’ grade quality paddy and ₹ 1470 per quintal for ordinary grade paddy. He informed the farmers to get the paddy to the centres after cleaning and drying it in the fields to ensure that they get the MSP.
He also instructed the officials to ensure that the farmers arrived in a phased manner to the procurement centres to avoid confusion.
