Bhubaneswar: The farmer registration process for ensuring procurement of paddy (Kharif crop) for KMS 2023-24 will start from July 15, 2023.
Farmers willing to sell their paddy have to be registered afresh and no renewal will be allowed.
Principal Secretary, Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare Department Vir Vikram Yadav has written a letter to all Collectors in this regard today.
“For Kharif, it has been decided that all farmers willing to sell their paddy have to be registered afresh, i.e. no renewal is allowed and farmers have to provide all details personal/land/bank related information again. In view of the above arrangement this year farmer registration process will start from 15.7.2023 to complete all activities well in time,” reads the letter issued to all Collectors.
The letter says that all 30 districts of the State will participate in the procurement of paddy.
Actual procurement of paddy (Kharif Crop) will start from the 1st week of November in the State and close on 31.3.2024, the letter added.
It is noteworthy that there are two paddy procurement seasons-Kharif and Rabi in which the State government through its agency Odisha State Civil Supplies Corporation (OSCSC), procures surplus paddy of farmers by way of payment of Minimum Support Price (MSP) for their produce.
