Paddy soaks in rain water in Karimnagar
Heavy rains in Karimnagar Tuesday night soaked hundreds of quintals of paddy stored in open procurement centres. Farmers, angered by delayed government purchases, demanded immediate procurement of wet and discolored stocks without conditions
Karimnagar: Paddy stocks stored in open near procurement centres were soaked completely rain hit many parts of the district on Tuesday night.
Hundreds of quintals of paddy was soaked in the rain in Karimnagar agriculture market yard. Expressing anger at officials, farmers said that they have to suffer the loss due to delay in the procurement of the crop.
Though the crop was brought to the market yard ten days ago, officials delayed the procurement due to various reasons. They wanted the government to procure soaked and discolored paddy without putting any conditions.
