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Hyderabad: Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar said the government procured a record 70.30 lakh tonnes of paddy for the 2021-22 Vanakalam season. “This was record procurement for the season even in the united Andhra Pradesh. Telangana stood third in the country among the States in terms of paddy procurement,” the Minister said. In a statement […]

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said the government will pay Rs 2.37 lakh crore towards procurement of wheat and paddy under MSP operations. The fiscal 2022-23 has been announced as International Year of Millets, the finance minister said while presenting the Union Budget for 2022-23.

Hyderabad: Surpassing the Centre’s target, the Civil Supplies department has procured 70 lakh tonnes of paddy for the Vaanakalam 2021-22 season which is about 44 per cent i.e. 21.21 lakh tonnes more than last Vaanakalam 2020-21 season. The paddy procured by the State government is around 1.31 lakh tonnes more than the official target of […]

Khammam: Unable to digest the growing support for Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao among the farming community, BJP leaders in the State were making baseless allegations against the TRS government, TRS leaders said on Wednesday. The BJP government at the Centre was known for its anti-farmer attitude, and the saffron party leaders have a history […]

Khammam: The Central government was adopting double standards in purchasing paddy from Telangana State, TRS Lok Sabha leader Nama Nageswara Rao said on Monday. “The BJP government at the Centre is not responding to the State’s appeals to buy paddy produced by farmers. It is sad that the Centre which has been purchasing paddy from […]

Hyderabad: The face-off between Telangana and the BJP government at the Centre over paddy procurement reached a flash-point on Friday with the State declaring that it would dump the entire stock of Vaanakalam paddy procured beyond the targetted 60 lakh tonne, at India Gate if the latter continues with its stubborn attitude. “We achieved the […]

Hyderabad: Finance Minister T Harish Rao said he was astonished that Union Minister for Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal chose to keep the Ministerial delegation from Telangana waiting for three days for an appointment, but chose to meet BJP leaders from the State first. He also strongly objected to the Union Minister blaming the […]

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Tuesday said post Covid impact, Telangana was back on development track and was being ranked among the top States in progress being achieved in the country. “Seven years ago, per capita income of Telangana was about Rs 1 lakh. In 2021, it increased to Rs 2.37 lakh. Telangana […]

Khammam: The Centre has adopted anti-farmer policies that were harming the interest of farmers in Telangana, Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar said on Monday. He took part in a protest at Raghunathapalem mandal headquarters in the district on Monday following a call for Statewide protests given by TRS president and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao. […]

Mancherial: Additional Collector D Madusudan Naik instructed the officials concerned and rice millers to achieve targets with regard to transportation of paddy to rice mills. Speaking after inspecting four rice mills at Sabbepalli village in Hajipur mandal on Sunday, Madusudan directed the officials and millers to shift both raw and boiled rice which were pending […]

Medak: Transforming his farm into a perfect model for alternate crop cultivation, MLC Sheri Subhash Reddy skipped paddy this season and is raising different crops in his 55 acres of farmland on the banks of River Manjira at Kuchanpally village in Havelighanpur mandal. Subhash Reddy, who is also the political secretary to Chief Minister K […]

Hyderabad: Telangana has procured nearly 42.22 lakh tonnes of paddy worth Rs 8,268 crore from 4.5 lakh farmers as of December 12. This is about 30 per cent more than the paddy procured during the corresponding period last year. However, there is a severe shortage of godown space in the State with the Centre not […]

Hyderabad: Taking shelter under technicalities, Union Food and Public Distribution Minister Piyush Goyal once again washed his hands off over paddy procurement from Telangana State. “It is the responsibility of Telangana State government to procure paddy and supply rice to the Central government and the Central government has no role in paddy procurement as Telangana […]

Mulugu: A farmer, who consumed pesticide on Tuesday night, died at the MGM Hospital in Warangal on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Bethelli Kumar (42) of Shivapur village of Eturnagaram mandal in the district. Kumar had cultivated paddy in eight acres. While he owned two acres, he took six acres on lease. He harvested […]

Suryapet: There certainly is a compelling reason behind farmers’ reluctance to shift from paddy cultivation to pulses, cotton or even vegetables. No, its neither the pests nor the human effort required to raise crops other than paddy. But its the marauding groups of monkeys that forced the farmers to opt for paddy cultivation only in […]

Karimnagar: BC Welfare and Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar decided to cultivate oil farming in his agricultural land as an alternative to paddy. Minister has taken this decision to motivate the farming community to shift to alternative crops in the wake of the Union government’s denial to purchase paddy. Kamalakar on Saturday visited his agricultural […]

Hyderabad: The Telangana State Civil Supplies Corporation has procured 5.06 crore tonnes of paddy worth Rs 88,000 crore in the last seven years, which is a record of the sorts at the national level. No other State could achieve the feat in the country. In a statement issued here on Friday, Corporation chairman Mareddy Srinivas […]

Mancherial: Internal bickering among leaders of the Congress party came to the fore when former Congress MLC K Premsagar Rao submitted a representation to Collector Bharati Hollikeri requesting her to procure paddy produce and to immediately initiate payments to farmers here on Thursday. Supporters of Premsagar Rao blocked a convoy of vehicles in which senior […]

The paddy of farmers in Bodhan, Kotagiri and Chandur were affected because of the untimely rains. The district registered one millimetre rainfall in the last 24 hours, according to MeT department officials.

By Krishank Manne It is evident that the BJP has chosen paddy production and procurement for its politics. This is something unprecedented and a very strategic ploy of the party to misguide poor farmers. The BJP state president’s call to farmers contradicts his own party’s policy at the Centre on procurement cap. The whole argument […]