Campco puts restrictions on areca purchases

The Central Arecanut and Cocoa Promoting and Processing Cooperative (Campco) Ltd has made a decision to limit the buy of arecanut pursuing the Karnataka government’s current guidelines to control the spread of Covid-19 in the condition.

A push launch by Campco claimed that in get to safeguard the areca farmers by retaining steadiness in arecanut price tag and retaining in line with the norms laid down by the authorities in the wake of increasing casualties thanks to Covid-19, the cooperative has proposed to limit the purchases of arecanut to just one quintal per member in the course of this interval of restriction up to Might four.

Holding the protection of members and employees and to maintain social distancing, the over operations will be carried out by means of token technique at all branches of Campco and will be limited to 25 members per day per department, it claimed.

Even though the procurement of cocoa beans will keep on as remaining finished prior to, procurement of pepper will be discontinued at all branches for the time remaining, it claimed.