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 […]
Siddipet: Finance Minister T Harish Rao has termed the Food Corporation of India (FCI) officials’ inspection of 2,990 rice mils in Telangana at a time when the paddy procurement is underway as a conspiracy of the union government. Speaking to news reporters after a visit to Agriculture Market in Siddipet on Thursday, the Minister has […]
Karimnagar: BC Welfare and Civil Supplies Minister, Gangula Kamalakar wanted the FCI authorities to stop physical verifications in rice mills. The Central government was creating hurdles to shift paddy to rice mills in the name of physical verification, he said and asked FCI officials not to create troubles for farmers and rice millers in the […]
Hyderabad: Lashing out at BJP State president and MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar, TRS MLC and Rythu Bandhu Samithi Chairman Palla Rajeshwar Reddy said the former lacks basic knowledge about food grain procurement. At a time when the Centre went on record saying farmers suicides had come down drastically in Telangana, the BJP State leaders were […]
Hyderabad: TRS MPs on Monday served notice to move a privilege motion against union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal for deliberately misleading the Parliament and Members over the issue of export of boiled rice to other countries. In a letter to Lok Speaker Om Birla, the TRS MPs including Prabhakar […]
Hyderabad: TRS Parliamentary Party leader K Keshava Rao took union Food Minister Piyush Goyal to task for refusing to procure paddy from Telangana citing technicalities and insisting that Telangana supply only raw rice to the Centre. Rao reminded that considering technicalities, the Centre through the Food Corporation of India (FCI) should procure only paddy from […]
Hyderabad: Due to burgeoning stock level of parboiled rice in the central pool, the union government reiterated that the Food Corporation of India (FCI) was not in a position to accept parboiled rice during Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) 2021-22. However, certain States are allowed to procure parboiled rice for consumption within their respective States. In […]
