To prevent any manipulation of paddy weight under the guise of soaked paddy, officials, including the police, are conducting regular inspections of the paddy procurement centres and rice mills
According to the latest figures, 1,64,656 metric tonnes of paddy have been procured from 20,239 farmers through 406 centres and transported to rice mills so far in Nizamabad
In view of paddy procurement, officials have prepared proposals to set up 197 paddy procurement centres to purchase the paddy from the last week of this month
Stating that no advance payment was done by the Centre for paddy procurement in the State, Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said the Centre was yet to clear dues.
Collector said the district administration had set up 227 procurement centres across the district against the previous Vanakalam's 150 procurement centres.