A call for making scientific storage facilities

Aiming to popularise the procedures for accreditation of warehouses, the Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority (WDRA) is recently organising a series of awareness programmes for farmers and other stakeholders such as banks. Addressing a programme organised by NABARD in Coimbatore, Dinesh Rai, WDRA Chairman, emphasised on the need for making scientific storage facilities available to farmers to enable them avoid distress sale and realise better price for their produce. R Inigo Arul

Selvan, Assistant General Manager, NABARD, said that the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund and the Warehousing Infrastructure Fund operated through NABARD supports construction of warehouses in the state. “The Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies, Cooperative Marketing Societies, TN Civil Supplies Corporation, State Agricultural Marketing Board and State Warehousing Corporation have constructed warehouses and increased their storage capacity with the support of NABARD in the last two-three years,” Selvan added. Ramakrishnan, MD, Coimbatore District Central Cooperative Bank, said, “Steps were being taken for accrediting the large number of small godowns maintained by the PACS, so that these godowns can issue Negotiable Warehouse Receipts (NWR).”