Heavy rain has recently lashed Chattisgarh causing problems for the farmers in the state. The farmers’ grains have got wet and risked rotting. But the state government has stepped in to tackle the problem by purchasing their rain-soaked grains through cooperative societies and other official agencies. The govt has decided to buy more than 50 lakh tonnes of grains in 2011-12.
Chief Minister Raman Singh is personally micro-supervising the grain procurement and directing govt officials to exert themselves in the emergency situation. The paddy procurement especially through the cooperatives has thus far been such a success that Chief Minister Raman Singh felt constrained to appreciate it.
The Chattisgarh government’s effort to meet the crisis created by the unusual rains hitting the state, has already had an exemplary effect. Bihar deputy chief minister Shushil Kumar Modi impressed with what he calls the Chattisgarh model using cooperatives in paddy procurement may yet take cue for wet grains woes of farmers