Campco increases days for areca procurement in Kerala

The Central Arecanut and Cocoa Internet marketing and Processing Cooperative (Campco) Ltd has made a decision to invest in arecanut from growers in Kasaragod district of Kerala three occasions in a 7 days.

SN Khandige, Vice-President of Campco Ltd, advised Enterprise Line that the Kasaragod district administration has supplied permission to boost the quantity of times of procurement in a 7 days.

Till now, the cooperative was allowed to procure arecanut from grower-users in Kasaragod district of Kerala only one working day in a 7 days. Pursuing the permission from the Kasaragod district administration, the cooperative has made a decision to boost the quantity of times of procurement to three times in a 7 days with impact from May possibly 4.

Campco will procure arecanut from growers at Badiadka, Kanhangad, Bayar, Perla, Bandadka, Neerchal and Mulleriya branches of Kerala on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays of every 7 days, he mentioned.

A member can provide a optimum of 500 kg of arecanut in a thirty day period. Thinking of the social distancing specifications, every department will be capable to invest in arecanut from a optimum of thirty users involving eleven am and 4 pm on the times outlined.

He mentioned the users will have to consider tokens from the branches concerned just before bringing the commodity for providing. The grower-users will have to comply with all the guidelines issued by the government on social distancing and other connected challenges, he included.