"paddy-procurement"

The paddy procurement for Vaanakalam (Kharif) season is being undertaken at a brisk pace, with around 8.93 lakh tonnes procured

Referring to vanakalam paddy procurement the minister informed that elaborate arrangements have been made for paddy procurement in erstwhile Khammam district

Hyderabad: The pace of paddy procurement in Telangana, which began on Saturday, is fast gathering momentum with the commencement of the harvesting season for the ensuing Vaanakalam (Kharif) season. Nearly 2,000 procurement centres have already been opened in the erstwhile districts of Nizamabad and Nalgonda, where farmers have started harvesting their crop. Paddy has been […]

District Collector VP Gautham in a statement here on Thursday informed that about six lakh metric tonnes paddy production was expected in the vanakalam season.

Hyderabad: Lashing out at the BJP State leaders for yet again going back on their promises on paddy procurement, Rythu Bandhu Samithi chairman Palla Rajeshwar Reddy warned that if the union government does not procure paddy within a week, the BJP leaders will not be able to move around in the State. He said the […]

Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the recent public meeting in Hyderabad, cried hoarse about the Centre not discriminating against Telangana. Facts, however, speak louder than his claims. The BJP government at the Centre continues to remain passive to the Telangana government’s repeated requests for procurement of about 50.24 lakh tonnes of paddy from the […]

Hyderabad: Stating that Food Corporation of India (FCI) had suspended paddy procurement in the State since June 7, the CPI (M) state unit has demanded the FCI to commence the procurement at the earliest. Due to the FCI’s delay in procurement, stocks were piling up in rice mills. Both farmers and rice millers were facing […]

TS buys 30 lakh tonne paddy so far Strap: Procurement to continue till June 10 to reach target of 50 lakh tonne

Hyderabad: TRS working president and Minister KT Rama Rao on Sunday said Union Home Minister Amit Shah issued an unconstitutional threat by saying that paddy will be purchased in the State only if people vote BJP to power. “If needed, the State government will consider approaching the Supreme Court for justice,” he said. “We will […]

Hyderabad: The Central Government washed off its responsibility of procuring paddy with union Home Minister Amit Shah declaring that paddy procurement was State Government’s responsibility. “If you cannot procure paddy, just resign but do not blame the Modi Government. After coming to power, BJP Government will procure every kilogram of boiled rice in Telangana,” said […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]