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Telangana is set for a record Kharif harvest of 148.30 LMT from 68 lakh acres, but warehouse shortage threatens procurement. With FCI and private stocks already full, farmers, millers, and traders face storage crises, urging government intervention

Telangana is poised for a record paddy harvest thanks to a favourable monsoon, but farmers face mounting challenges. Escalating input costs, urea shortages, and a nationwide rice glut have driven prices below MSP, threatening profits.

Revanth Reddy asked District Collectors to establish exclusive procurement centres for fine rice varieties or to arrange exclusive weighing machines within the procurement centres.

State government would not impose fresh taxes to generate revenue for taking up development works and implementing the six guarantees promised by the Congress party.

Almost all the mills that are drafted for custom milling for the season are ready with adequate CMR stocks. CI could lift only 100 to 110 wagons a month

Varalakshmi thanked the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, for nominating her to the committee.

They have been identified as Ajay Kumar, a resident of Karnataka, Aman Kumar aka Rupesh, a resident Jharkhand, and Vishal aka Abhishek Singh from Bihar.

The weighted average selling price of wheat witnessed a positive trend in August, at Rs 2,254.71 per quintal. However, it has recently decreased to Rs 2,163.47 per quintal in the e-auction dated September 20.

With the Food Corporation of India (FCI) refusing to procure paddy that was soaked in rains, Telangana government had procured the paddy to help farmers

Telangana State Civil Supplies corporation has opted for disposing the paddy in the open market after obtaining the green signal from the government

A case was registered against 74 accused, including serving (34) and retired officials (3) of FCI, private persons (17) and other entities, they added.

Rice millers in Telangana expressed their concerns over the confrontational attitude of the FCI in rejecting the CMR and FRK sent by them.

As per the Annual Public Laboratory testing report of Enforcement sample for 2021-22 financial year, 7,781 civil cases and 2,694 criminal cases for adulteration in food grains were booked in Uttar Pradesh

Earlier, the FCI accepted the non-fortified rice but has been accepting only fortified rice since the Rabi season of 2021-22.

Karimnagar: BC Welfare and Civil Supplies Minister G Kamalakar stated that the paddy scarcity developed in the country due to indifferent decisions of the Central government. Instead of taking into consideration the food crisis that developed in Sri Lanka, the union government had refused to purchase paddy by neglecting the crop produced by farmers. As […]

Stating that the decision to ban export of broken rice exposed Central Government’s lack of vision on food security, TRS Working President and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao demanded that the BJP Government to come up with a ‘One Nation- One Procurement’ policy.

Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the recent public meeting in Hyderabad, cried hoarse about the Centre not discriminating against Telangana. Facts, however, speak louder than his claims. The BJP government at the Centre continues to remain passive to the Telangana government’s repeated requests for procurement of about 50.24 lakh tonnes of paddy from the […]

Hyderabad: In what is being seen as a move blatantly orchestrated by the BJP government at the Centre to create hurdles for Telangana, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) which had promised to procure the entire raw rice stocks supplied by the State government, has now taken a U-turn citing alleged irregularities in stock registers […]

By Seela Subba Rao The Centre in June 2021 approved an increase in Minimum Support Price (MSP) for all mandated kharif crops for the marketing season 2021-22. The highest absolute increase in MSP over the previous year was recommended for sesamum (Rs 452 per quintal) followed by tur and urad Rs 300 per quintal each. […]

Khammam: Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar has demanded the Centre to withdraw the out-turn ratio of 67 percent fixed by FCI for raw rice in the milling of yasangi paddy. He said due to extreme temperatures in summer season the out-turn ratio could not be achieved as the broken rice percentage would be high. The […]