Summary:
Disclosing this at the farmers grievances meeting, Mr.Rajamani said this was the second phase of the sanction of compensation to farmers for 2016-17. 26 DPCs openedSo far, 26 direct procurement centres had been opened to procure paddy from farmers and seven more were to be opened soon. He also announced that a meeting with representatives of sugar mills and farmers would be held next week to discuss payment of arrears to cane growers. Initially, about ?29.27 crore was disbursed to 11,071 farmers. However, only 20 tonnes had been procured so far at two centres, the Collector said..