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Civil Supplies Corporation, which has taken up paddy procurement in the State is close to realizing its target for the season

This bizarre incident took place in Vachunur of Thimmapur mandal on Saturday morning.

Since more rains are predicted, farmers are rushing to procure tarpaulin covers to protect their crops from the rains and to dry the paddy as well

State government has yet again appealed to the Food Corporation of India to relax the Fair Average Quality norms

Since paddy fields have become muddy after the recent rains, the demand has gone up for track harvesters, which have tracks like war tanks instead of normal wheels

Due to inadequate availability of these harvesters in the state, farmers are having to source them from neighboring states

V Anil Kumar instructed officials of the Civil Supplies and Rural Development departments to work in coordination to speed up procurement

Cultivation of paddy in Siddipet district has gone up from 1.06 lakh acres during Yasangi in 2016-17 to 3.48 lakh acres in 2022-23

Farmers suffered loss as paddy stocks were washed away in rain water at some procurement centers and got wet in some other centers

The Minister along with MLA S Venkata Veeraiah inaugurated a paddy purchase centre at Rejerla under Mittapalli cluster of Tallada mandal

Gangula Kamalakar said 7,100 paddy procurement centres across the State to procure paddy for the Yasangi season

Nalgonda MLA Kancherla Bhupal Reddy said the State government was committed to purchase every grain of paddy

There is an increase of 9,000 acres in which paddy has been sowed in the district in the present Yasangi season

Vanakalam procurement commenced on October 21 last year and was successfully completed after 94 days

Paddy was cultivated to a larger extent in the present Yasangi season since ample water is available in all irrigation projects, tanks, ponds and other water bodies.

The total area sown in the State is 28.56 lakh acres as on Wednesday against the season normal cultivation area of 47.85 lakh acres

The total worth of the paddy procured so far is Rs 12,051 crore and already Rs 11,000 crore has been deposited into the farmers bank accounts.

Addressing the general body meeting of Siddipet Zilla Parishad, the Minister said the Telangana government had utilised the MNREGS fund by building platforms to dry grains at agriculture fields for the benefit of the farming fraternity.

Telangana government spent a massive Rs 1.07 lakh crore and procured 6.06 crore tonnes of paddy in the last eight years.

The State government procured over 26 lakh tonnes of paddy from over 4.16 lakh farmers through 6,129 procurement centres