HYDERABAD: A crisis in the
jute mills industry
in Bangladesh has affected farmers in
Telangana. There is a short supply of
jute bags
for storing paddy and farmers are complaining about it. Agriculture minister
Singireddy Niranjan Reddy
on Wednesday acknowledged that there was an insufficient supply of jute bags for farmers. “This is because of the jute mills crisis in Bangladesh. The production of jute bags in that country has decreased. We are trying to overcome the problem,” he said in Nagarkurnool.
The minister along with Nagarkurnool MLA
Marri Janardhan Reddy
visited the market yard in Nagarkurnool and noticed that because of the untimely rains, stocks of paddy had got wet. Farmers are agitated about this because they will not be able to sell wet paddy. Niranjan Reddy, however, assured them that the entire stock would be bought.
“First we will buy the dry stock. After allowing some time for the wet paddy to dry, that also will be bought. There will be no difference in the minimum support price whenever the paddy is bought,” he assured farmers. He also directed officials to hire more vehicles if necessary to shift the paddy stocks.
Niranjan Reddy warned contractors against any difference in weight of the stocks and said strict action would be taken if they resorted to any malpractices.
In Bangladesh, the production of jute goods fell by at least 66 per cent this year, leading to a crisis. This was set off because of a cash crunch faced by the
Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation
. Raw jute which had been cultivated was not bought by the corporation and therefore the production by mills fell drastically.
Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyde...
Read MoreSushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.
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