India’s Chief Minister, K Chandrasekhar Rao,
has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reconsider the Central Government’s
recent directive that state governments should not impose any levy on rice from
millers with effect from October 1, The New Indian Express reports.
In a letter on Thursday, Rao suggested continuance
of the existing 25 percent levy so that farmers would get remunerative prices
for certain special varieties and at certain periods when millers have a good
market outside the state or country.
The Central Government recently informed
the states that with a view to ensuring payment of remunerative prices to
farmers at MSP or above and to improve the outreach of the procurement system,
it was decided that the states should not impose any levy on rice from millers.
The Chief Minister said Telangana was a
paddy-producing state and the practice had been that millers purchase paddy
from farmers competing with each other at remunerative rates to deliver the
levy.
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