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IRATE FARMERS BLOCKED ROAD

Paralakhemundi,Traffic between Paralakhemundi to Berhampur disrupted for several hours today,following road blocade by irate farmers at Upalada in Ganjapati district.The district administration started procurement of paddy from 7/1/2025,but no mandi receives the padddy from farmers. Gajapati district farmer leader Suryanarayan patnaik said,as the miller to receive the paddy not yet finalised,farmers are waiting at mandi with their padddy.As such,the mandi`s have no security facility and the farmers are compelled to guard their paddy under open sky.The situation aggravated,as the mandi only allows the paddy of FAQ standard,several farmers returned with their discoloured paddy.Aggrieved with the attitude by mandi officials,today hundreds of farmers with their paddy blocked the state highway.The farmers has alleged that,last month the chief minister Mohon majhi visited the district to assess the crop damage.The CM assured immediate disbursement of assistance to the victim farmers.But till date not a single farmer in the district received the same.The farmers further alleged,the govt has annlounced to purchase of all the paddy at the mandi,now the Mandi officials only asked for FAQ standard paddy.They said,the blocade would continue and the officials be released only after giving in written to receive the paddy within 3 days. to for Hearing the incident,CSO,Tehsildar,DRCS,Co-op society secretary etc reached there and the irate farmers also detained them.However,police reached the spot and persuaded the farmers to release them.The officials only released after giving in writing that the paddy including discoloured would be received at mandi`s with in three days.The CSO said this year a target has been fixed to procure 5.85 lakh quintals of paddy from farmers in the district and 45 millers has been identified.Howver till date only 26 millers submitted their documents,as a result of which paddy procurement delayed.We will apprise the collector and govt about the written assurence given to the farmers for consideration.He,however expressed his inability about the crop loss assistance,as the matter is the look out of administration.Despite attempts,no official of the administration was available for comment.On the otherhand,the farmers said,if their paddy not purchased as per the written assurence,they will revive their agitation,which would spreadto other areas in the district.Due to delay in procurement by the Gajapati administration,several farmers sold their paddy to Andhra.Even the Andhra officials also issued valid permission to lift the paddy.

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