The Cauvery Vivasayigal Sangam has exhorted the Tamil Nadu authorities to name off “privatisation” of paddy procurement.

A decision handed at a gathering held at Mannargudi on Saturday, Could 24, demanded revival of the outdated system of paddy procurement by means of direct buy centres of Tamil Nadu Civil Provides Company all through the State, like within the delta area.

The federal government ought to guarantee disbursal of sale proceeds to farmers who had measured the paddy to the non-public company with whom the accountability of procuring paddy on behalf of the federal government was entrusted throughout the present season.

It additionally demanded compensation from the Catastrophe Aid Fund for losses suffered by farmers who took up cultivation of alternate crop throughout the present summer time because the crops have been affected within the current sudden heavy rain. The compensation must be along with the insurance coverage compensation to be prolonged to farmers who had insured their crops.

Urging the federal government to make sure that the advantages of ‘kuruvai bundle’ was prolonged to all farmers, the affiliation sought the implementation of the motivation scheme executed by Telangana and Puducherry governments underneath which ₹15,000 per acre per 12 months was prolonged to farmers.

Reiterating the demand of ₹3,500 per quintal for paddy and ₹5,000 per metric tonne for sugarcane, the affiliation known as on the Union Authorities to provoke talks with Reserve Financial institution of India to calm down the contemporary situations laid down for gold loans, in favour of the farming group. Of late, yearly, the farming group was struggling to repay the gold loans in full in view of unpredictable weather conditions that affected the harvest.