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Hyderabad: Turning up the heat on the BJP at the Centre over paddy procurement, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao along with the State Cabinet Ministers, legislators, MPs and other TRS elected representatives, will stage a demonstration at Indira Park on Thursday. It would be one of the rarest occasions in the nation’s history where the […]
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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: TRS president and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao lambasted the BJP State leadership for making statements contradictory to the Centre on paddy procurement and misleading farmers to cultivate paddy during the upcoming Yasangi season. He demanded that BJP State president Bandi Sanjay must own his statement and take the responsibility of convincing the Centre […]
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Hyderabad: TRS president and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has asked the Centre to come out clearly with a paddy procurement policy and set annual targets for paddy procurement as requested by Telangana government. Chandrashekhar Rao, who chaired a meeting with the TRS Legislative Party in Hyderabad, also asked the Union government to decide the […]
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Nalgonda: Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy on Monday strongly condemned the attack of BJP activists on farmers during Bandi Sanjay’s visit to IKP paddy procurement centres in the erstwhile Nalgonda district. Reacting to the issue, the Minister said, ” paddy procurement was held peacefully in the erstwhile Nalgonda district for the last six years. Even […]
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Hyderabad: State BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Wednesday asked the party cadre to take part in large numbers in demonstrations to be organised by the party in all the district Collector offices on Thursday demanding that the State government purchase paddy from farmers. Interacting with district party presidents, in-charges and heads of various morchas […]
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Rajanna-Sircilla: Collector Anurag Jayanthi instructed officials to speed up the paddy procurement process in the district. The Collector conducted a review meeting with officials to discuss the paddy procurement process at his chamber in the Collectorate complex here on Wednesday. The Collector said that out of 265 purchasing centers, 248 centers were already inaugurated. 16,904 […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president A Revanth Reddy wondered as to why the BJP State president Bandi Sanjay and MP Dharmapuri Arvind were not responding properly to the points raised by Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao in respect of paddy procurement. Speaking at a training programme organised for the Congress workers, Revanth Reddy […]
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Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy stated that the Centre had utterly failed in terms of paddy procurement. He accused that the Union government had no specific policy on paddy procurement for the Yasangi season and was showing discrimination towards Telangana State, despite purchasing entire paddy crop from Punjab. Addressing the mediapersons at Telangana Bhavan […]
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Hyderabad: Continuing his onslaught against the BJP leadership for the second consecutive day, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao announced that the TRS would stage protests in all Assembly constituency headquarters in the State on November 12, demanding that the Centre procure entire paddy crop from farmers of Telangana State. He urged people of Telangana to […]
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Nirmal: Forest Minister Allola Indrakaran Reddy said that the Union government was showing a stubborn attitude towards farmers’ community. He was addressing a gathering after inaugurating a paddy procurement centre in Soan mandal centre on Sunday. Indrakaran said the State government introduced a slew of innovative schemes for the welfare of the agrarian community. He […]
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Hyderabad: The State Government has already set up 1,033 procurement centres for the 2021-22 Vanakalam season and measures were being taken to establish more centres in all the districts for the convenience of farmers. Civil Supplies Minister G Kamalakar held a meeting with Civil Supplies Corporation officials here on Monday on procurement centres. During the […]
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Suryapet: Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy on Thursday said the State government had suggested farmers to take up cultivation of crops which had demand in the market. The suggestion was meant to avoid hardships to the farmers in the light of decision of Food Corporation of India (FCI) on paddy procurement. Speaking to the media, […]
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Medak: District Collector S Harish said the government would set up 311 procurement centres across Medak district this year as they were expecting over 5 lakh metric tonnes of paddy production this Vanakalam. Addressing a review meeting with the officials of departments concerned here on Wednesday, the Collector instructed the officials to keep electronic weighing […]
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Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said there would be clarity on paddy procurement by the Central government in 10 days. He urged the Centre to procure paddy from Telangana State in the same manner it was procuring from Punjab. After Punjab, paddy is widely cultivated in Telangan State, which is now the second largest […]
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Telangana accounted for close to 50 per cent of the procurement of Toor Dal (pigeon pea) by the Union government under its Price Stabilisation Fund (PSF) scheme
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He also directed the District Collector K Nikhila to take action against the rice mill owners who were causing trouble to the farmers in purchasing grain soaked due to the recent rains.
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Of the 32 districts, 100 per cent procurement had been completed in 21 districts with paddy worth Rs 16,878 crore procured
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Collectorinformed that 7,88,850 tonnes of paddy worth Rs 1,470 crore was purchased from 1,10,468 farmers through IKP and PACS paddy procurement centres
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Says govt procured 70 lakh tonnes despite lockdown and labour shortage
