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Khammam: With an objective of benefiting farmers in the State, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao opened yasangi paddy procurement centres across the State, stated ministers Puvvada Ajay Kumar and Gangula Kamalakar. The ministers reviewed paddy procurement, payments to farmers and arrangements made at procurement centres in Khammam and Kothagudem districts here on Saturday. Civil Supplies […]
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Hyderabad: Paddy procurement is being expedited in Telangana, with the officials kept on an alert over the impending unseasonal rains due to the impact of Cyclone Asani. The number of procurement centres have been scaled up to 5,774 where 11 lakh metric tonnes of paddy has been procured through 3,760 centres so far. About 11 […]
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Hyderabad: Procurement of paddy crop for Yasangi season, is progressing smoothly across the State. Around 4.61 lakh tonnes of paddy procured from 61,300 farmers through 3,679 paddy procurement centres. Nearly 4.3 lakh tonnes of paddy has been already shifted to the millers for milling. As the harvesting has not commenced in the districts of Warangal, […]
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Nalgonda: In all, 39,620 metric tons of paddy of yasangi crop season was procured from 5,293 farmers through 211 paddy procurement centre in Nalgonda as on April 30. The district authorities are working with a target of completing the paddy procurement in the district in 15 or 20 days. Out of 254 proposed paddy procurement […]
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Mancherial: Leaders of both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) clashed with one another in Chennur town on Saturday, resulting in a mild tension. A few BJP leaders visited some chilly farmers on the outskirts of the town, when some local farmers who are also said to be TRS activists reached […]
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Hyderabad: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has thanked the Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao for coming to the rescue of farmers by deciding to procure paddy even as the Centre backed out on its promise. A resolution to this effect was moved by Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy at the TRS 21st formation day celerbations […]
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Karimnagar: Telangana Planning Board vice-chairman B Vinod Kumar assured that the state government would procure the entire paddy produced by the farmers in the Yasangi season. Vinod Kumar along with Choppadandi MLA Sunke Ravishankar inaugurated a paddy procurement center in Tadagonda of Boinpalli mandal on Sunday. Speaking on the occasion, Vinod Kumar said that the […]
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Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party has changed its tune again in respect of Paddy procurement this yasangi season. The BJP leaders had repeated egged on the farmers to go for paddy plantation assuring that the Centre would buy every grain of paddy from the farmers. The union Minister for Tourism G Kishan Reddy too made […]
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Jangaon: Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao has said that a total of Rs 5 crore fund had been spent on the development of Singarajupally village of Devaruppula mandal in the district. As a part of his visit to the village on Saturday, Rao has inaugurated a paddy procurement centre, unveiled the […]
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Hyderabad: Rice millers agreed to start unloading the paddy stocks arriving at their mills with immediate effect. They urged the State government to compensate for the losses incurred due to milling of paddy into raw rice rather than parboiled rice during the Yasangi season. Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar who held discussions with the millers […]
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Karimnagar: Union Government’s yet another attempt to vilify the Telangana Government on paddy procurement issue fell flat on its face, when Civil Supplies minister G Kamalakar made a point by point rebuttal of the allegations levelled by none other than Secunderabad parliament segment MP and union Minister G Kishan Reddy. Speaking to reporters here on […]
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Peddapalli: Paddy procurement has started across the district. District administration made required arrangements to procure paddy from farmers. Local MLA D Manohar Reddy started the procurement process by inaugurating Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies (PACS) centers in Bompalli and Raginedu of Peddapalli mandal on Thursday. Though the central government refused to procure paddy from the state […]
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Hyderabad: TPCC president A Revanth Reddy appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to order a CBI probe into the irregularities in paddy procurement during the last two Kharif seasons in the State. He also appealed to the Prime Minister to extend Minimum Support Price (MSP) for farmers, who taken […]
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Hyderabad: At a time, when the State Government had already set up over 530 paddy procurement centres, union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy said the Telangana Government was yet to commence procurement. Despite the Central Government agreeing to State Government’s requests on paddy procurement, the TRS Government has not procured stocks from farmers, the union […]
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Warangal: With the harvest of the yasangi paddy to begin in 10 days in the district, the officials are planning to set up more than 186 paddy procurement centres in the district to help the paddy farmers. As per the preliminary estimations, 1.86 lakh metric tonnes (MT) of the paddy will be expected in the […]
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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: Much to the delight of farmers, the Telangana government kickstarted the paddy purchases on Friday through the procurement centres established across the State especially in the erstwhile districts of Nizamabad, Nalgonda and Khammam. The officials made arrangements to procure nearly 65 lakh tonnes of paddy during the ensuing Yasangi (Rabi) season. During the Yasangi […]
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Hyderabad: Civil Supplies Minister G Kamalakar said paddy procurement would commence from Friday across the State and the exercise would be completed by May end or first week of June. This Yasangi season, paddy was cultivated in 34 lakh acres and 65 lakh metric tonnes was expected to arrive at the procurement centres, he said. […]
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Hyderabad: A day after Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao announced procurement of the entire paddy produced in the State, the administration swung into action to make arrangements for purchase of paddy across the State on Wednesday. While Ministers reviewed the arrangements and plans in their respective districts, Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar held a teleconference with […]
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Nalgonda: Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy on Wednesday asked the elected representatives and Rythu Bandhu Samithi members to cooperate with the officials for purchase of paddy from the farmers through paddy procurement centres. Holding a meeting with the officials, DCCB and Rythu Bandhu Samithi members of of Nalgonda, Yadadri-Bhongir and Suryappet district held in Udhyaditya […]