Bihar farmers may to bear cost for tech problem

Commodity Online Reports

PATNA: Bihar farmers might to bear the cost to the tune of Rs 200 crore for the technical problems among the central and state government agencies over the procurement of paddy.

Against this year's target for Bihar which is 12.5 lakh tonnes till January 20th, 2009, only 1.55 lakh tonnes of paddy has been procured.

It is expected that another one or 1.5 lakh tonnes could be procured in the remaining few weeks of procurement. Thus it will be about 9 lakh tonnes below the target.