Kharif Paddy Procurement Scheme

West Bengal government is planning to launch a new scheme for Kharif Paddy procurement from the farmers. Food and Supplies Minister, Jyotipriya Mallick announced some of the scheme details. This procurement will be made by the government for the public distribution system in the state. It will enable the farmers to sell their rice in quintals to the government. In the current situation, the cultivation is high and demand for the same is low this leads to lower price to the farmers.  This scheme will thereby protect the farmers with a fixed minimum support price which is yet to be fixed by the state government

Scheme Overview:

List of scheme lunched by West Bengal government

Scheme Objectives and Benefits:

• The main objective of this scheme is to provide a transparent platform to the farmers to sell their cultivation to the government
• Government will be thus enabled to provide undisrupted supply of rice to the public through its public distribution system
• It aims at increasing the overall income and living of the farmers thereby
• Under the scheme the farmers will get the price of their produce directly in their bank account with no intermediary in between
• This scheme discourages hoarders as the product will be directly procured by the government from the farmers
• Farmers will get a platform to market their goods
• This scheme will enable the farmers to get fair prices for their produce
• It tends to cover maximum farmers thereby putting a ceiling on the paddy procurement from each farmer

Scheme Details:

• West Bengal government is soon to launch a new scheme for Kharif Paddy procurement from the farmers
• This year the farm produce is in good quantity but demand is less and this is affecting the price for the farmers
• This scheme will ensure the farmers will get a fair price for their produce
• It will also ensure uninterrupted supply of rice to the public through the Public Distribution System (PDS) in the state
• Farmers will get the payment through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) into their bank accounts
• This scheme discourages the hoarders and similar middlemen
• Last year government procured maximum 90 quintals from each farmer, this year it is planning to procure 45 quintals from each farmer thereby aiming to cover maximum farmers in the state
• Government will set up a separate framework for keeping a check on the implementation of the scheme
• It aims to provide rice to almost 10 cr. individuals till June 2021, thus similarly benefiting more than 30 lakh farmers in the state
• Government will start procuring paddy from the farmers by the end of this month
• This scheme will aim at increasing the overall income and living of the farmers in the state