Kerala has asked the Centre to increase the procurement price of paddy to Rs 1,000 per tonne from the existing Rs 750, Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan said. The Centre should also assist the state in fixing coconut procurement price at minimum of Rs six per coconut, he told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday.
Achuthanandan, said the Centre's decision to increase the wheat procurement price to Rs 1,000 per tonne and fixing procurement price of paddy at Rs 750 was a clear case of discrimination between the corps cultivated in North India and South India.
The state also wanted the Centre to include Alappuzha, Palakkad, Kottayam and Thrissur districts in the Centre's National Food Security Programme, he added.
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