Paddy procurement irregularities rampant Wednesday, 10 February 2021 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA

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Maniram Sabar and Dasi Sabar are two small farmers of Bargaon village in Khariar block of Nuapada district. They have been permitted to sale 70 quintals of paddy from 3.24 acres of land, i.e. about 22 quintals per acre.

Likewise, Satyapriya Mund of the same village with 9.5 acres of land in total has been issued 11 tokens which will allow him to sale 1,050 quintals i.e. above 100 quintals per acre. "Not at all possible," says Sanjay Tiwari, a farmer of Bargaon village further adding that Satyapriya should have got 150 quintal at the highest at the rate of 19 quintals per acre in irrigated lands and 13 quintals for unirrigated. "I am astonished how these farmers were allowed to sale such huge quantity" adds he.  The master farmers list prepared by the Civil Supply department for Bargaon Panchayat has many such cases, which helps the millers to legalize thousands of quintals of illegally purchased paddy from farmers through brokers in distressed rate.

"This is tip of the iceberg. A thorough inquiry will reveal a lot about such manipulations," says former MLA of Khariar constituency Hitesh Bagartti. On the contrary, hundreds of genuine farmers of the district are desperately waiting for Government decision for renewal of their tokens lapsed due to delay in allotment of procurement targets to different Mandis and availing of MAS (Millers Authority Slip) by millers.Tokens issued to 25 farmers in Domjhar village of Boden block have lapsed. The number of lapsed tokens in Karlakot, Khaira, Boden and Litisargi Mandis would deprive about 350 farmers of selling roughly around 20,000 quintals of their paddy to mandis.

"Most tokens lapsed because the Mandis remained closed for about a week from January 21 last. We don't know whether new tokens in our name would be regenerated," rued the aggrieved farmers.   Nuapada district had procured around 12 lakh quintals of paddy last Kharif, which in the current Kharif season has already exceeded by 18 per cent with 73 per cent of registered farmers already having disposed their stocks. Out of 33,272 farmers registered, 24,352 farmers have sold their paddy till date.

Denial to regenerate lapsed tokens would deprive thousand of genuine farmers of selling their paddy," adds Bagartti.

The total  estimated marketable surplus of registered farmers was about 12 lakh quintals, but the administration is unable to answer how the quantity was achieved with 27 per cent of registered farmers yet to sale their paddy," asked Jadumani Panigrahi, a farmer leader.

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