Campco puts restrictions on areca purchases

The Central Arecanut and Cocoa Advertising and marketing and Processing Cooperative (Campco) Ltd has made a decision to limit the acquire of arecanut pursuing the Karnataka government’s current pointers to manage the distribute of Covid-19 in the condition.

A press release by Campco explained that in order to safeguard the areca farmers by preserving steadiness in arecanut selling price and holding in line with the norms laid down by the govt in the wake of expanding casualties due to Covid-19, the cooperative has proposed to limit the purchases of arecanut to just one quintal for every member through this time period of restriction up to May well four.

Retaining the safety of users and team and to maintain social distancing, the earlier mentioned functions will be conducted via token procedure at all branches of Campco and will be restricted to twenty five users for every day for every department, it explained.

Though the procurement of cocoa beans will keep on as becoming done in advance of, procurement of pepper will be discontinued at all branches for the time becoming, it explained.