Facilitate Kerala agencies to directly procure vegetables: CM Pinarayi Vijayan writes to CMs of Tamil Nadu, Maharastra to check price rise
New Delhi: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday (October 26) wrote to Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu and Maharastra concerning the necessity for direct procurement of greens like onions, tomatoes, and potatoes in view of the current rising development in Onion costs.
The Kerala Chief Minister drew the eye of his counterparts in Tamil Nadi and Maharashtra and stated, “We are witnessing a sharp rising trend in Onion prices recently. This is essentially due to supply-side shocks and calls for interventions through procurement.”
He additional stated, “I wish to invite your kind attention to the fact that the need of the hour is to reduce the volatility in the price movements and bring about price stability to protect the consumers from an inflationary spiral. Being a consumer state, people of Kerala depend substantially on the arrival of commodities from other states.”
Citing the central authorities scheme of direct procurement of greens like Tomato, Onion and Potato, which comprise a great a part of the peoples’ meals consumption basket, he stated, “I wish to state that Kerala has a robust system of procurement through its agencies like SUPPLYCO, HORTICORP and CONSUMERFED, which can directly procure crops like Tomato, Onion and Potato from farmers and Farmers Producers Organisations (FPOs) in your state and ensure payment of remunerative prices to them.”
“This will help in ironing out the volatilities in prices faced by the consumers I request your goodself to kindly facilitate the three agencies SUPPLYCO, HORTICROP and CONSUMERFED for procuring these crops directly from the farmers and FPOs in your state,” Vijayan added.
Notably, the programme of direct procurement of greens was introduced within the Union Budget, 2018-19, with an outlay of Rs 500 crore to stabilise the availability and costs of Tomato, Onion and Potato (TOP) crops. NAFED is at the moment doing this procurement.
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