India: 1 lakh quintal of potato seized
Guwahati: Kamrup district administration has seized close to one lakh quintal of potato, almost equal to the requirement for 100 days, in Guwahati city. The haul is suspected to have been hoarded by unscrupulous traders in two cold storage facilities
Price of potato in the open market is currently hovering around Rs 25-28 per kg, when the selling price should have been Rs 14-15. Kamrup district deputy commissioner Vinod Seshan said, "We are releasing the potato to the government’s fair price shops (Amaar Dukaan), where it will be sold at Rs 14.50 per kg in Kamrup district and Rs 15 per kg in Kamrup (Metro) district. We have written to the government to allow us to release the potato in all PDS stores."
The cold storage facilities are for farmers to store their products. They have to pay rent for the storage and the quantities stored have to be recorded at the facilities. But, at the two private storage facilities where the potato have been found, there were no records showing where the potato came from and no agreement to establish that farmers have sold off the stuff to the owners of storage facilities.
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