As many as 4,000 persons who sold tur at various procurement centres in Maharashtra posing as farmers are now on the radar of the state government. Principal secretary of the state agriculture ministry Bijay Kumar has issued orders to all the district collectors to submit a detailed report where "suspicious farmers" were found to have sold tur (pigeon pea) at these centres. The state government had to set up procurement centres for tur due to the bumper production of the crop which resulted in a dip in its prices pushing the farmers into a debt trap. "I have issued orders to the district collectors and hope to get a detailed report from them in the next 10-days," Bijay Kumar told(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

Source: dna July 16, 2017 06:00 UTC