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Still waiting payment from this miller

May 30, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
Scores of farmers from Region Two are still awaiting payment much to their suffering, inconvenience and unbearable hardship from Golden Fleece Rice Investment Mill despite a documented contractual agreement at the time of buying their paddy for the last crop.
The document specifically states that 50% of the total amount will be paid two weeks later from the date the paddy was purchased and the balance within 42 days of the signing of the agreement.
During the month of March this year the mill made purchases and both the duration for the part and full payments have passed without farmers being able to get any money whatsoever thereby breaching the contract.
Farmers just keep flocking the mill on a daily basis for their money in vain and much to their frustration with company officials only saying “No money yet. Keep checking”.
The indignity meted out here is bad but worst still the proprietor is never available to meet the affected farmers and to get a good word from him as to when payment would be made.
While the farmers are kept in suspense for this to be done they are being pestered and embarrassed to fulfill their financial obligations to their creditors.
“Who feels it knows with with farmers having to beg for their hard earned money which is their only source of income for survival. Just imagine some parents don’t have money to buy food and to send their children to school.
Some form of positive action needs to be taken by G.R.D.B. to ensure that payment is made on time and for a penalty to be imposed on the miller when this is not done.
The proprietor should also be advised not to buy paddy without having money to make payment as in the end farmers are placed in a serious predicament through no fault of their own.
Farmers had no option but to sell their produce to this mill which makes it compulsory to do once its harvestor was used.
Concerned farmer

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