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Paddy Procurement: Summer Rains Escalate Crisis in Upper Kuttanad
The New Indian Express Kottayam
|March 25, 2025
With no support from anywhere, farmers are now up in arms staging blockade protest
WITH the summer rains pouring down, the farmers' anxiety is palpable. This year, the most chaotic paddy procurement in recent years is unfolding, spelling heavy losses for most farmers. Not only the farmers' six months of hard work is at risk of being wasted due to the inability to complete the paddy procurement before the summer rains, but also most farmers are teetering on the edge of a debt trap.
This story is from the March 25, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kottayam.
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