Janakpurdham. The Provincial Office of the Food Management and Trading Company Limited, Janakpurdham, has started purchasing wheat from farmers from today. Office Chief Nirmal Thapa informed that the government has started purchasing wheat based on the support price set at Rs 3,867.38 per quintal.
The target is to purchase 2,500 quintals of wheat from farmers in Dhanusha and Mahottari this year. The office has stated that it will purchase 50 quintals of wheat from each farmer and 500 quintals from each cooperative. According to the office, a free fork has also been operated for the purchase of wheat within the premises of the office in Mujelia, Janakpur.
The notice states that the wheat should be cleaned and sold based on the standards set by the relevant local levels of Dhanusha and Mahottari and that payment will be made to the farmers through checks. The office has reduced the purchase of rice compared to the target in the current fiscal year. Out of the target of purchasing 32,000 quintals of rice, only 5,346 quintals of rice have been purchased.
Since the market price is higher than the support price, farmers have sold their produce in private markets, so rice was not purchased as per the target. Although the government had instructed to purchase paddy at a rate of Rs 3,580 per quintal, farmers sold paddy in the market at a rate of around Rs 4,000 per quintal.
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