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New Delhi: The Centre has allowed the Telangana government to deposit a total of 6.05 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of fortified parboiled rice with the Food Corporation of India (FCI). This would be done out of the remaining paddy of KMS 2020-21(Rabi crop) & paddy of KMS 2021-22. A letter in this regard was issued […]
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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 […]
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Hyderabad: Considering the climatic conditions in Telangana and welfare of farming community, Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar appealed to the Food Corporation of India (FCI) not to raise any unreasonable objections during the current paddy procurement. The Minister met with FCI General Manager Deepak Sharma here on Saturday and briefed him about arrangements in place […]
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Hyderabad: TPCC president A Revanth Reddy demanded union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy to initiate measures for CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in Custom Milled Rice (CMR) procurement in the State. In an open letter to the union Tourism Minister, the TPCC president alleged that huge amounts of irregularities were taking place in the […]
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Hyderabad: Sticking to its guns, the union government on Monday reiterated that the Food Corporation of India (FCI) was only prepared to purchase raw rice from the State given the national market demand. It made it clear that the parboiled rice could not be procured as requested by the Telangana government. The announcement came in […]
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Hyderabad: TRS MPs staged a walkout from Lok Sabha on Tuesday after Speaker Om Birla failed to respond to their pleas for discussion on paddy procurement from Telangana State. Earlier, the MPs along with other Opposition members disrupted the proceedings in the Lower House with their vocal protests on the hike in fuel prices, paddy […]
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Says the union Minister is ignorant about the pain and struggle of farmers
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Hyderabad: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday slammed BJP government at the Centre and TRS government in Telangana over paddy procurement issue. He demanded that both the governments take all necessary steps to procure every grain of the paddy grown by farmers. He said that it is shameful that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government […]
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Hyderabad: Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal’s attempts at hiding behind a veneer of satire to run down the TRS government on the paddy procurement issue on Thursday is bound to boomerang on the BJP government at the Centre. Describing the Telangana government as anti-farmers was probably the ultimate faux […]
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Hyderabad: The relentless efforts of the South Central Railway (SCR) officials to attract freight business towards Railways combined with continuous monitoring of the movement of freight trains has helped in increasing freight loading by the zone in January 2022 as well. Freight loading in the last month increased by 12 per cent when compared to […]
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Hyderabad: After the BJP State unit, it is now the Congress State unit that has begun instigating farmers into cultivating paddy in Yasangi season. TPCC president A Revanth Reddy on Sunday asked farmers to cultivate paddy in Yasangi season, stating that it was legally binding on the State government not only to purchase the farmers’ […]
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Hyderabad: Upping the ante against the BJP government at the Centre for its anti-farmers’ policies, the TRS has decided to join hands with like-minded political forces at the national level and support their efforts to dethrone the saffron party at the Centre. TRS President and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao is likely to meet the […]
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Yadadri-Bhongir: District Collector Pamela Satpathy on Wednesday urged farmers to take up the cultivation of crops that required low investment and yield a higher profit. The Collectors was speaking after visiting the agriculture field of Balaswamy, a farmer who took up the cultivation of ten verities of crops on one-acre land at Sikhinder Nagar of […]
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Non-implementation of open-ended procurement policy in true letter and spirit is against the mandate of Food Corporation of India
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Not buying parboiled rice in Yasangi effectively means not buying a single grain from Telangana this season
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Hyderabad: The TRS delegation urged Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan to impress upon the Union government to direct the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to procure paddy from Telangana State. In a memorandum submitted to her, TRS leaders requested the Governor to take up the issue as a priority and save the farmers from agony and suffering […]
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All along, the BJP leader has been instigating farmers to cultivate only paddy, but now the Centre says it won’t procure parboiled rice
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Hyderabad: With the sowing of paddy crop for the Rabi (Yasangi) season fast approaching, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention to address the confusion prevailing over the rice procurement in the State. He wanted the Union government to come out with an annual procurement plan well ahead so that […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana State Civil Supplies Corporation (TSCSC) chairman M Srinivas Reddy urged Union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy to desist from making illogical comments over paddy procurement. He wanted the Union Tourism Minister to convince the Centre to procure entire paddy produced in the State and prove his commitment towards the welfare of farmers in […]
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Hyderabad: What could be the best example of a double talk? One need not search for examples, but look at the way the State BJP leaders peddle untruths and egg on people based on false propaganda. Saturday’s taunt by the State BJP president and MP Bandi Sanjay asking farmers in Telangana to start cultivating paddy […]
