Cooperative leaders in Telangana have opposed the government’s move to dissolve elected PACS bodies and replace them with nominated ones, demanding immediate elections, restoration of autonomy, and adherence to democratic principles, citing farmer welfare and sector stability concerns.
Farmers in erstwhile Adilabad queued at PACS, DCMS, Agro Centres and HACA outlets to buy urea, with police deployed to control crowds. Shortages forced farmers to wait for hours, leading to anger and criticism of the government
BRS leader T Harish Rao condemned police action against farmers protesting the short supply of urea, accusing Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy of harassment and mismanagement. He warned of public backlash and demanded an end to cases filed against marginalised farmers over fertiliser distribution immediately
The urea shortage in Telangana has hit tenant farmers hard as they lack passbooks to claim quotas. Forced to rely on officials or private vendors, many face reduced supply, inflated black market prices and are left struggling to sustain cultivation
Farmers across Telangana have launched a series of protests against the Congress government over the acute shortage of urea. Agitated over long waits and inadequate supply, farmers burned photocopies of pattadar passbooks and Aadhaar cards in Mahabubabad and locked PACS staff in offices.
Farmers across Telangana, already struggling with urea shortages, now fear their fertiliser may be washed away due to continuous rains. Agriculture officials warned of nitrogen loss in waterlogged fields, while farmers staged protests and issued sarcastic appeals on social media
Women groups will soon be operating at least 50 per cent of the paddy procurement centres in the State this Yasangi season, If everything go as per plan
The conditions have already triggered apprehensions that several farmers could lose out on the waiver, for which they were waiting desperately ever since Revanth Reddy himself had egged them on during his campaign to go and avail loans immediately and that he would waive them off.
Karimnagar: A 30-member cooperative team of the Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS) comprising of its chairmen and CEOs of the YSR (Kadapa) district in Andhra Pradesh state made an exposure visit to the Karimnagar District Cooperative Central Bank (DCCB) and PACS in Karimnagar district on Friday. The team was led by Andhra Pradesh Cooperative Training […]
Hyderabad: Attributing the success of the agriculture sector to the relentless efforts of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said that the average growth of the agriculture sector in Telangana was recorded at 15.8 per cent over the last seven years as against national average of 8.5 per cent during the […]
Karimnagar DCCB CEO N Satyanarayana Rao said that they have set to convert all the 128 PACS into Multi service centres in the district and already more than 50 per cent societies have been transformed into MSCs
