The marketing
department will issue barcoded identity cards containing farmers’ details for use
in cotton purchases to control irregularities at the Market yards in the Telangana.
Details of land, crops,
bank account, pattadar pass book will be barcoded into the cards. Efforts are
being made to start the commercial cotton purchases from September 27 in the
Adilabad district.
It is learnt that state
government came out issue barcode
identity cards for farmers following the reports of huge irregularities
in cotton purchases in Kharif-2014 in Warangal, Karimnagar and Adilabad
districts.
It was found that
cotton commission agents and owners of the Cotton ginning and pressing factors
had purchased the cotton produce at low prices from the farmers on benami names
and sold it to the Cotton Corporation of India at higher prices.
The farmers, already
facing distress, were deprived of even minimum support price of Rs 4,050
announced by the Central government last Kharif.
Collector M. Jagan
Mohan said they the use of the barcoded ID cards would prevent irregularities
in the cotton purchases at market yards.
Minister Jogu Ramanna
said nearly 56 lakh quintals of cotton purchases takes place last Kharif in the
district.
But the Agriculture
department figures showed that cotton crop was badly damaged and withered due
to drought conditions and cotton yields were low and did not cross 35 lakh quintals
in the last Kharif in the Adilabad district.
Nearly 21 lakh of
cotton was purchased from the farmers of bordering Maharashtra and other parts
of state at cheaper prices and sold to the CCI of Adilabad branch, at MSP of Rs
4,050 by the middlemen and owner of the ginning factories.
Even the Adilabad marketing
department claimed that its revenue in terms of taxes on cotton purchases had
been increased, contradicting the agriculture department figures.
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