Farmers suffering due to collusion of Congress govt, middle-men over paddy procurement: KTR

The Civil Supplies department promised to purchase 8.16 lakh tonnes of paddy in October itself. But as on October 28, only 7,629 tonnes of paddy has been purchased from 913 farmers," he said.

Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao slammed the State government for colluding with middlemen and delaying paddy procurement from farmers. Due to rains, he said paddy is getting wet and gaining moisture at market yards and drying platforms.

“The Congress government promised to purchase 91.28 lakh tonnes of paddy this season. The Civil Supplies department promised to purchase 8.16 lakh tonnes of paddy in October itself. But as on October 28, only 7,629 tonnes of paddy has been purchased from 913 farmers,” he said.

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Sharing the videos of plight of farmers with wet paddy at a market yard on X, Rama Rao attacked the Congress government for repeatedly failing to support farmers since assuming office in the State. He said even though harvesting has commenced, the State government did not disburse Rythu Bandhu amount to farmers for Vaanakalam (Kharif) season and also made no arrangements to procure paddy.

He said the government has not only failed to commence paddy procurement process through Indira Kranthi Patham, but also did not finalise allocation of rice mills to supply procured paddy for milling. “While farmers are struggling to sell their produce, our Chief Minister Chitti Naidu (referring to Revanth Reddy) is busy with his rhetorics and diversion politics,” he remarked.