Registration of two,119 ghost farmers blocked

By Express News Service

JEYPORE: The district cooperative societies authority has blocked the registration of over 2,100 ghost farmers on discovering they’d not cultivated within the ensuing rabi season in Koraput. Sources stated, over 25,000 hectare (ha) was cultivated by farmers in paddy chunks of Jeypore, Kundra, Kotpad and Borigumma utilizing minor and main irrigation services. 

Accordingly, final month, round 19,371 farmers within the district registered their names in almost 16 Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS), 15 self-help teams and two pani panchayats. However, going by authorities directions to determine ghost farmers within the district and block them earlier than the procurement, the cooperative society authority of Jeypore started a area survey with assist of satellites to detect areas of real cultivation.

The workforce with round 103 employees surveyed almost 10,000 suspected plots in final 15 days and located that round 2,119 ghost farmers had registered uncultivated land for paddy sale. The names have been subsequently blocked and the district civil provides authority knowledgeable to not entertain their paddy through the procurement course of. 

District civil provides officer PK Panda stated, “We were informed that registration of 2,119 ghost farmers has been blocked and will do needful  during the ensuing paddy procurement.”The administration has deliberate to open 65 mandis to acquire rabi paddy from May 27 within the district.