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Chennai, Oct 22 (PTI) Tamil Nadu has been ensuring adequate procurement of paddy from farmers on a daily basis as per the directions of Chief Minister M K Stalin, Agriculture Minister M R K Panneerselvam said on Wednesday.

He accused Opposition Leader Edappadi K Palaniswami of “spreading false information" about the government’s paddy procurement process.

Briefing reporters at the Secretariat, Panneerselvam said the state government has been procuring around 1,000 bags of paddy per day from farmers, compared to 600 bags during the previous AIADMK regime.

“Palaniswami has been saying that the government should procure 2,000 bags of paddy per day. But when he was Chief Minister, it was mandated that one Direct Procurement Centre (DPC) should procure only 600–700 b

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