Campco puts restrictions on areca purchases

The Central Arecanut and Cocoa Promoting and Processing Cooperative (Campco) Ltd has decided to restrict the buy of arecanut adhering to the Karnataka government’s latest guidelines to manage the spread of Covid-19 in the point out.

A push launch by Campco reported that in get to secure the areca farmers by protecting balance in arecanut cost and trying to keep in line with the norms laid down by the authorities in the wake of rising casualties owing to Covid-19, the cooperative has proposed to restrict the buys of arecanut to 1 quintal per member during this period of restriction up to May four.

Holding the safety of users and workers and to maintain social distancing, the higher than operations will be performed as a result of token system at all branches of Campco and will be limited to twenty five users per day per branch, it reported.

Even though the procurement of cocoa beans will continue as staying carried out before, procurement of pepper will be discontinued at all branches for the time staying, it reported.