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Adverse weather delaying paddy transportation from procurement centres to rice mills; open procurement centres struggling to protect paddy stocks, leading to heavy spoilage

The farmers, who have been waiting at procurement centres for more than a fortnight, have been struggling to protect their produce from the untimely rains, due to lack of tarpaulins

Strong winds uproot trees and electric poles; traffic flow paralysed at several places in Sangareddy, Medak and Siddipet

The district witnessed heavy rainfall accompanied by thunder and lightning on Wednesday morning. The farmers were complaining that the delay in procuring paddy has caused losses to them

Though the procurement of the crop has been delayed due to various reasons, unseasonal rains are worrying the farmers

Complain that large quantities of paddy are deducted in the pretext of wastage while weighing the produce at procurement centres

According to police, the paddy grains were seized when the driver failed to show relevant documents to transport paddy at an inter-state checkpost

Stage is set for 340 procurement centres to be established to purchase 4.01 lakh metric tonnes of paddy expected to arrive at the centres in the present Vanakalam season

Centres to be operated through Primary Agricultural Cooperatives (4,496), Indira Kranti Patham centres (2,102), and other agencies (541), to streamline the process for farmers during the harvest season.

As many as 220 purchase centres would be set up in Khammam district to procure paddy, informed additional Collector

The Ministers along with District Additional Collector M David have inaugurated the paddy purchase centre Khanapuram

The area under paddy cultivation increased from 1.20 lakh acre last Yasangi to 2.80 lakh acre now.

To increase procurement centres to 6,575 over next few days from 650

“The Chief Minister is ignoring farmers’ interests," he said

Indrakaran Reddy said the government was striving hard to provide irrigation facilities to farmers besides supplying uninterrupted quality power for agriculture needs round the clock

Stating that 45 lakh gunny bags were available in the district, District Collector informed that proposals were sent to the state government for requirement of another 1.2 crore gunny bags