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Hyderabad: The Centre refused to budge from its stand on paddy procurement from Telangana, stating that it will not purchase parboiled rice from the State for Yasangi season. The Union government was also not willing to consider the State’s demand to come up with the raw rice procurement target for Yasangi. Replying to a question […]
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Hyderabad: Union Food and Public Distribution Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday sought to blame the Telangana government, claiming that the State government had failed to supply the quantity of rice as per the agreement. In Vaanakalam 2020-21 season, Telangana was expected to supply 50 lakh tonnes of rice but delivered only 32.66 lakh tonnes. In […]
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Jagtial: District Collector G Ravi instructed officials to provide all facilities in paddy purchasing centres to ensure that farmers should not face any hardships. The Collector made a surprise visit to paddy purchasing centres in Yashwantharaopet, Gopalapuram, Maddunur, and Sirikonda of Buggaram mandal, Kishanraopet and Endapalli of Velgatur mandal and Thimmapur, and Nerella of Dharmapuri […]
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Nirmal: Forest Minister Allola Indrakaran Reddy advised farmers not to believe in the statements of BJP leaders and get cheated by the party. Addressing the media here on Wednesday, Indrakaran slammed the BJP leaders for making contradictory statements over the procurement of paddy. He said it was absurd that while the Centre declared it would […]
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Hyderabad: The State government will not set up paddy procurement centres in the ensuing Rabi season as the Union Government has ruled out lifting parboiled rice from Telangana. Disclosing this at a media conference Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao slammed the Centre for running away from its social responsibility. The Telangana government does not have […]
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Hyderabad: A two-judge Bench of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice A Rajashekhar Reddy took up a PIL challenging the inaction of the government in procuring paddy from farmers. The Bench directed the government pleader for Civil Supplies, Food Corporation of India and Ministry of Consumer Affairs, food and […]
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Hyderabad: The war of words between the ruling parties at the Centre and the State further intensified on Monday when the Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao launched a no-holds-barred verbal assault on what he termed as best examples of double speak from the ruling BJP and likened it to a party ‘that kills farmers’. On […]
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Hyderabad: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MPs brought the Parliament to a standstill, forcing the adjournment of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, as they demanded that the Centre address the issues of paddy procurement and also issual of a gazette notification taking over irrigation projects on Godavari and Krishna rivers. Later, they staged a […]
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Hyderabad: In what could be termed as a tight slap for the BJP State leaders, the Central government on Saturday made it clear that paddy procurement in Telangana was continuing as per schedule. It has also asserted that the paddy was being procured at the existing minimum support price (MSP) as per the memorandum of […]
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Hyderabad: Alleging that both TRS and BJP were indulging in match-fixing in paddy procurement issue, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president A Revanth Reddy here on Wednesday said the farmers were facing problems because of the delay in procurement process. In an open letter written to the Telangana society, Revanth Reddy said the Congress would […]
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Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao returned to Hyderabad on Wednesday after his three-day visit to New Delhi. He had left for Delhi on Sunday by a special flight, to pursue issues pertaining to Telangana with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union Ministers concerned. The Chief Minister was accompanied by Industries Minister KT Rama […]
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Hyderabad: The Central government has categorically stated that it would not purchase parboiled rice in Yasangi and it did not take any decision on the extent of paddy to be procured in Vanakalam in Telangana. With the Centre’s decision, the parboiled rice will fade into oblivion. Following directions from Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, a […]
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Hyderabad: Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy slammed BJP State president Bandi Sanjay for his lack of knowledge about agriculture and yet making irresponsible statements against the State government.He demanded that Sanjay who started ruckus over the paddy cultivation two months ago, must put an end to it by convincing the Centre to give a clarity […]
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Nalgonda: Former Chairman of Legislative Council Gutha Sukender Reddy on Saturday urged the Centre to take up measures to shift the rice of the last Yasangi crop from the godowns of Telangana to create space that would help speed up paddy procurement of Kharif season. Speaking at a media conference along with Nalgonda MLA Kancherla […]
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Hyderabad: After assuring farmers that he would initiate necessary steps to make the Central government purchase rice, State BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar made a ‘U’ turn making it clear that the Centre would purchase only raw rice but not parboiled rice. “If the Centre is purchasing parboiled rice from any State in the country […]
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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: Demanding the State and Central Governments to procure paddy produced in Telangana, the State unit of Congress party is staging a demonstration from Public Gardens to Agriculture Commissioner office, Nampally here on Thursday. Raising slogans and holding placards, the Congress party leaders are demanding the State and Central Governments to stop politicising the paddy […]
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Hyderabad: Launching an all-out attack on the BJP on the issue of paddy procurement in the State, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao had just one question for the Union government: “Will you buy our paddy or not?” He demanded that the Union government spell out its policy on paddy procurement without further delay. “I am […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana State Civil Supplied Corporation chairman Mareddy Srinivas Reddy alleged that the Centre’s non-uniform policies for paddy procurement, are causing severe losses for the State exchequer. He rubbished the claims of the BJP State leaders that the Union government was paying entire expenditure for paddy procurement including transportation, storage and even for gunny bags. […]
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Hyderabad: BJP State president Bandi Sanjay Kumar here on Wednesday advised the ruling party leaders not to make the paddy procurement an issue. “It’s not an issue between two parties but an issue of farmers who are facing problems because of the delay in procuring paddy,” he said while addressing a press conference here. “In […]
