State’s paddy slip showing
Calcutta, Jan. 6: Two of the three Bengal agencies tasked with procuring paddy directly from farmers have failed to do so till now because of lack of funds, a revelation that blunts the state government’s attempt to blame the Centre. Paddy procurement is one of the purported issues over which the Congress and the Trinamul Congress have been calling each other names. The state government had pointed fingers at the Centre-run Food Corporation of India (FCI) for poor rice procurement, which has been blamed for some of the farm suicides in Bengal.





