Campco increases days for areca procurement in Kerala

The Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and advertising and Processing Cooperative (Campco) Ltd has made a decision to get arecanut from growers in Kasaragod district of Kerala 3 situations in a week.

SN Khandige, Vice-President of Campco Ltd, explained to Company Line that the Kasaragod district administration has offered permission to improve the variety of days of procurement in a week.

Until now, the cooperative was authorized to procure arecanut from grower-members in Kasaragod district of Kerala only a person working day in a week. Pursuing the permission from the Kasaragod district administration, the cooperative has made a decision to improve the variety of days of procurement to 3 days in a week with impact from May possibly four.

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

A member can provide a maximum of 500 kg of arecanut in a month. Looking at the social distancing prerequisites, each individual branch will be in a position to get arecanut from a maximum of 30 members amongst 11 am and four pm on the days stated.

He mentioned the members will have to consider tokens from the branches worried before bringing the commodity for marketing. The grower-members will have to follow all the guidelines issued by the government on social distancing and other linked issues, he additional.