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Farmers in Nalgonda district have alleged large-scale deductions and irregularities during paddy procurement, causing financial losses. They accused rice mills of manipulating weighbridges and prioritising paddy stocks arriving from Andhra Pradesh, while local farmers continue to face delays and additional charges.
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Choppadandi MLA Medipally Satyam urged Karimnagar district officials to speed up paddy procurement by resolving transportation delays, excess weighing complaints and unloading issues at rice mills, while seeking deployment of special officers at procurement centres and mills
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Vigilance officials of the Civil Supplies department inspected rice mills in Jaipur and Chennur mandals after a Rs 1.39-crore paddy procurement scam surfaced in Jaipur. Records of paddy purchases and milling were verified, and one rice miller has already been arrested.
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Eighteen rice mills in Nirmal and Kumram Bheem Asifabad districts were booked for diverting custom milled rice worth Rs 300 crore from the 2022–23 Yasangi season. Officials found large irregularities, including mills opening new units to continue receiving paddy
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In Mancherial district, 25 rice millers have been identified for defaulting or diverting custom milled rice (CMR) from the Vanakalam and Yasangi seasons of 2022 to 2024, with an estimated value of Rs. 205.47 crore. Cases against nine millers have been registered under relevant laws, with penalties and interest imposed.
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Superintendent of Police, B Rohith Raju informed that the mini rice mills have been set up in 20 villages at a cost of approximately Rs 50 lakh.
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The SP addressed the farmers' concerns and assured them that any fraudulent activities related to paddy procurement would result in strict action against the offenders.
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As the rain lashed Dubbak on Friday, the MLA visited the market to examine the wet paddy and also to understand the struggles of farmers
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Since the primary agriculture cooperative society (PACS) at Rampur in Nanganur of Siddipet district did not start procurement of the paddy even after opening the centre 10 days ago, farmers of the village organised a protest on Saturday
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They have returned 23,123 tonnes of rice so far. But, they did not deliver 5,918 tonnes of the rice till now. They were imposed a penalty of 25 percent for delaying the delivery.
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Collector Santosh said that the grains purchased through the centres were being shifted to rice mills as per capacity of the vehicles by tagging the produce.
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Nalgonda: Seven teams of Food Corporation of India (FCI) officials on Monday conducted raids on rice mills in Miryalaguda and Chityal and verified the records of the rice. As two lakhs quintals of rice of custom millings of last yasangi crop season were yet to be sent to FCI, the officials were verified the records […]
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Medak: District Collector S Harish said the government would set up 311 procurement centres across Medak district this year as they were expecting over 5 lakh metric tonnes of paddy production this Vanakalam. Addressing a review meeting with the officials of departments concerned here on Wednesday, the Collector instructed the officials to keep electronic weighing […]
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The Cabinet has also decided that all activities will be allowed from 6 am to 10 am every day.
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Hyderabad: Civil Supplies Corporation Limited Chairman M Srinivas Reddy on Sunday asked officials to shift paddy from purchasing centres to rice mills on priority basis. He said the Additional Collectors should play a key role in shifting paddy to rice mills. Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy brought the problems being faced by the farmers in […]
