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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 […]

Warangal: Farmers and TRS party workers led by Ministers Errabelli Dayakar Rao, Satyavathi Rathod, Chief Whip Vinay Bhaskar and MLAs staged dharnas at several places in erstwhile Warangal district on Friday. They demanded the Centre to make a categorical statement on the purchase of paddy harvest of Yasangi season from Telangana. Addressing the farmers at […]

Warangal: With the State government’s decision to purchase the paddy crop harvested in Vaanakalam season, the officials of the erstwhile Warangal district have already started the procurement process at several centres for the convenience of the farmers. While Panchayat Raj and Rural Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao inaugurated two centres in Jangaon district on Saturday, he […]

Hyderabad: Continuing his onslaught against the BJP leadership for the second consecutive day, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao announced that the TRS would stage protests in all Assembly constituency headquarters in the State on November 12, demanding that the Centre procure entire paddy crop from farmers of Telangana State. He urged people of Telangana to […]

Siddipet: Medak MP Kotha Prabhakar Reddy on Sunday demanded the State unit of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and Dubbak MLA Raghunandan Rao to convince Prime Minister Narendra Modi to purchase paddy from Telangana government instead of criticising Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao. Countering BJP MLA Ragunandan Rao’s comments on the Chief Minister, the Medak […]

Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy on Saturday urged farmers not to cultivate paddy during Yasangi season and instead he wanted them to take up alternate crops, including cotton cultivation. Telangana Government will not procure paddy produced during Yasangi. Farmers, who have tie ups with seed companies or rice millers can cultivate paddy but do […]

Hyderabad: State BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Wednesday took exception to the alleged warning issued by Siddipet District Collector P Venkatrami Reddy to officials and seed sellers that they would be suspended, and shops closed even if one kg of paddy seeds was sold in the district. “We will proceed legally against such officers,” […]

Huzurabad: Finance Minister T Harish Rao on Wednesday categorically stated that farmers could cultivate the crop of their choice and there was no restriction on the selection of crop cultivation. “BJP leaders are spreading falsehood that the State government is placing restrictions on the cultivation of paddy. There is no truth in the BJP’s propaganda,” […]

Siddipet: Siddipet District Collector P Venkatrami Reddy on Wednesday said the government would set up 396 paddy procurement centres across Siddipet district to procure 6.86 lakh tonnes of paddy from 1.79 lakh farmers in the district. Addressing a meeting conducted with rice millers at Integrated Collectorate Complex in Siddipet on Wednesday, the Collector said that […]

Khammam: With the State government deciding to procure entire paddy produced in Vanakalam season, officials in erstwhile Khammam have begun preparations for the procurement of the produce.According to officials, it was planned to procure about 6.50 lakh metric tonnes of paddy in Khammam and Kothagudem districts. In Khammam district paddy was cultivated in about 2.64 […]

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Monday made it clear that the paddy procurement would be taken up for the Vaanakalam season this year, as was done last year. He directed the Civil Supplies Department officials to procure paddy through 6,545 paddy purchase centres that were established last year. Further, the Chief Minister announced […]

Hyderabad: Validating the facts established by ‘Telangana Today’ on the alleged emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) through paddy cultivation in the State, officials of Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) said the issue was being blown out of proportion without even considering other factors that were favourable to the atmosphere. They also questioned the […]

Siddipet: With a motto to produce, preserve and distribute a variety of seeds, a young Agriculture Extension Officer from Narayanraopet Mandal with the support of some progressive farmers developed a seed bank of a variety of paddy and other seeds. Collecting some 33 varieties of paddy seeds from different farmers, AEO T Nagarjuna convinced Rythu […]

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Monday appealed to the Union government to examine the possibility of exporting paddy to foreign nations. For the second consecutive day on Monday, the Chief Minister called on Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal in Delhi and urged him to bring the issue […]