Bhubaneswar, June 11 -- Even as the Odisha government has been going gaga over its much-touted token-based e-procurement of paddy, the shocker is marginal farmers are getting pushed out of the procurement system in the State. The proportion of marginal farmers availing the MSP in State has been shrunk by a massive 15 per cent in 2020-21.

As per the latest data available (up to Jan 1, 2021) with the Commission of Agriculture Cost and Prices (CACP), Odisha could procure only 7.3 per cent of the total paddy procured from farmland size of below 2.5 acres, when it was 16.4 per cent of the total in 2019-20.

Procurement, Politics And Farmers

Even as the State is drumming up the fact that Odisha has witnessed a record procurementin the Kharif ...