Odisha: Farmers Block Road In Two Districts Over Delay In Paddy Procurement | OTV News

Kalahandi/Jharsuguda: Hundreds of farmers blocked street at two separate locations in as many districts on Monday morning throughout protests over the alleged delay in procurement of paddy crop within the State.
As per stories, a whole bunch of farmers registered on the Kalampur Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies (PACS) stacked their paddy baggage on the street close to Pandigaon mandi and sat on defend blocking the Kalampur-Rampur route in Kalahandi district in the present day.
The farmers alleged that though practically one month had handed because the procurement course of started within the district, their inventory is but to be lifted, as a consequence of which they had been pressured to spend sleepless nights on the mandi guarding their produce.
Farmers blocked Kalampur-Rampur street close to Pandigaon mandi in Kalahandi district in the present day“Around 24,000 quintals of paddy have been kept in waiting at the mandi and until it was completely purchased by the PACS authorities, we will continue our protest,” mentioned an agitating farmer.
“We submitted a memorandum to the Tehsilader on January 23 where in we made it clear that we will resort to protests if our paddy was not procured within 24 hours. Since no action was taken to solve our demand, we sat on agitation and will continue it until our demands are fulfilled,” mentioned one other farmer.
Farmers blocked Kalampur-Rampur street close to Pandigaon mandi in Kalahandi district in the present day Though the native Tehsildar went to the spot and tried to pacify the protesting farmers by way of talks, the later refused to name off the protest.
In a associated incident, a bunch of farmers from Lakhanpur block in Jharsuguda district blocked the National Highway- 49 with paddy loaded tractors protesting the delay in paddy procurement as a consequence of token-related points.
Due to some faults throughout the registration course of, as many as 172 farmers belonging to the Attabira Cooperative Society couldn’t obtain the tokens on the market on the mandi. The farmers mentioned although they’d lodged complaints with the district administration, no steps had been taken to resolve the matter which led to the unrest amongst them.
A gaggle of farmers from Lakhanpur block in Jharsuguda district blocked NH- 49 in the present dayHundreds of autos had been left stranded on each aspect of the freeway as a result of farmers’ agitation, added stories.

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