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The Collector along with Sathupalli MLA S Venkata Veeraiah held a meeting with the officials to review the progress of paddy procurement during this season

Madhusudan stated that as many as 250 procurement centres were created for buying paddy produce from farmers across the district and added that they are expecting about 2.30 lakh metric tonnes of paddy to be procured this season.

Khammam: Five lakh metric tonnes of paddy was expected to be produced in Yasangi season in Khammam district, informed District Collector RV Karnan. Paddy was cultivated in about 2.26 lakh hectares. As many as 439 procurement centres would be set in the villages across the district to procure paddy from the farmers. There was a […]

“Since cotton produced in the State is of high quality with high yield besides commanding a higher price as well, farmers should be ready to grow cotton in 75 to 80 lakh acre during the monsoon season,” the Chief Minister said.

The Chief Minister, who held a high-level review meeting, said it was decided to procure paddy from villages, as was done last year, in view of the increasing cases of Covid-19.

Extent of area under cultivation zooms to 63.13 lakh acres against the season normal of 36.43 lakh acres

The entire produce was purchased from farmers at a Minimum Support Price (MSP) of Rs 1,888 per quintal.

With increased irrigation facilities farmers took up paddy cultivation on a large scale

Good spells of rain in past few months resulted in 49% excess rainfall for Yasangi crop season.

Nagula Gangaram, popularly known as ‘Chinni Krishnudu’ is the proud owner of a ‘Grain Bank’ of mind-boggling 110 varieties of paddy

In their 35 acres of land in the village, Harikrishna cultivates a variety of agriculture and horticulture crops such as paddy, turmeric, chilli, cocoa, oil palm and coconut

Civil Supplies Corporation arranged 445 paddy purchasing centers and has so far purchased 7 lakh metric tonne paddy from the farmers

As per directions of CM K Chandrashekhar Rao, the authorities are making arrangements to set up total 6,491 procurement centres across the State for the benefit of farmers

Nizamabad: BJP party members staged a protest on National Highway at Velpur crossroads of Nizamabad district, by demanding to provide Rs 2,500 support price to the thin variety paddy. Balkonda Assembly constituency BJP party In-charge Eeleti Mallikarjuna Reddy and BJP district president Baswa Lakshmi Narsaiah participated in the protest. Mallikarjuna Reddy demanded the Telangana government […]

As many as 250 centres were arranged for procuring the produce.

Nalgonda: Superintendent of Police A V Ranganath on Saturday warned that criminal cases would be filed against the millers, if they purchase paddy from the farmers at the price of lower than Minimum Support Price (MSP). In a press release here on Saturday, he said that the police department would support the district authorities in […]

In a statement here on Friday, Ponnam Prabhakar said the fine varieties which are susceptible to pest attacks and water-logging conditions, were badly damaged pushing the farmers into dire straits

Hyderabad: Congress MLC Jeevan Reddy has demanded the State government to declare ex gratia of Rs 20,000 per acre of land submerged because of rains and floods that lashed the State. In a statement here on Tuesday, the Congress leader demanded the Chief Minister to personally visit the affected areas or take an aerial survey. […]

About 4.8 lakh tonnes of crop is expected to arrive since paddy was sowed in 2.52 lakh acres in the district this Kharif

Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, who held a high-level meeting at Pragathi Bhavan here, instructed the officials concerned to facilitate paddy procurement through more than 6,000 procurement centres across the State.