Kakinada: Collector Gopalakrishna Dwivedi said he would let the farmers’ request to introduce an insurance scheme for coconut trees, known to the Government and insurance companies.
Steps were meanwhile being taken to purchase their produce through the NAFED centres and thereby ensure remunerative prices.
Mr. Dwivedi was replying to a question through telephone by a farmer Adabala Swami of Kesanapalli village in Malkipuram mandal during the Grievances’ Day programme as to what the departments concerned were doing to alleviate the plight of coconut farmers.
The Collector observed that the NAFED centres were aimed at eliminating middlemen from the market, for which necessary instructions were issued to the mandal revenue officers.