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Agriculture Minister Thummala Nageshwar Rao urged farmers in Telangana to shift from paddy to alternative crops like oil palm, citing better returns, government incentives and procurement support, while noting that the Centre may not procure additional rice from the State

Tension prevailed at the oil palm factory in Narmetta as BRS and Congress workers raised slogans against each other during a Rythu Mela event. Leaders from both sides appealed for calm, and the situation was brought under control

Ahead of the Karimnagar Cooperative Urban Bank elections, internal rifts have resurfaced in the Congress with three factions forming separate panels. Despite the party’s decision not to field an official panel, key leaders have entered the contest independently

BRS activists led by former MLA Sunke Ravishankar staged a protest in Karimnagar against urea shortage, leading to clashes with police. Ravishankar accused both the Congress government in Telangana and the BJP-led Centre of failing farmers by neglecting timely fertiliser supply

Former MLA Sunke Ravishankar warned of protests during Ministers’ visits in Karimnagar, alleging the Congress government ignored farmers’ demand for irrigation water. He urged the government to release water to save withering paddy crops and fill key reservoirs

Three Ministers -- Thummala Nageshwar Rao, D Sridhar Babu and Ponnam Prabhakar -- participated in the inauguration of Texport unit developed in Sircilla Apparel Park

Several farmers, who had loans exceeding Rs.2 lakh have not found their names on the list, despite repaying the excess amount to banks following the suggestion of Agriculture Minister Thummala Nageshwar Rao.

Agriculture Minister Thummala Nageshwar Rao on Wednesday wanted Agriculture officials to work in coordination with farmers' bodies to address the issue of stubble burning before it turned detrimental to life.

Out of 1,24,545 accounts, for which the waiver was pending due to Aadhar related issues, 41,322 accounts were updated so far. Aadhar related issues pertaining to rest of the accounts were in the process of rectification

Minister Thummala Nageshwar Rao said that Agriculture officials would reach out to every farmer and help them address the complaints pertaining to non-implementation of the loan waiver.

Despite Agriculture Minister Thummala Nageshwar Rao’s repeated appeal to farmers for advice on how to extend Rythu Bharosa to tenant farmers, a majority of the farmers skipped the subject.

Only two of the six pumps of the project were ready for the wet run. Four other pumps of the pump houses will also be ready for operations very soon to commence water drawl from Godavari river.

Though they registered their protest by stalling 25,000 looms for about two and half months in the beginning of this year, there was no change in the attitude of the government, the weavers alleged.

Talking to a delegation of representatives from weavers cooperatives that met him in his Secretariat chambers, he said the Telangana State Handloom Weavers Cooperative Society had received orders worth Rs 255 crore from the government departments.

Inaugurating the Global Rice Summit, 2024 in the city, he called for steps to widen further the export market for rice in the world.

Ruling out any short supply of seed in the State, he said the State government had made adequate stocks of seed and fertilisers stocks available for the season.

He stated that the Government would come out with a whitepaper on the way the crop investment support was implemented so far and the way forward in the budget session either in June or early July.

Meetings would be held soon with representatives of farmers' organisations before the two key programmes sponsored by the State government get underway.

The minimum support price operations were off to a start much early this year and realisation of procurement targets was way ahead compared to last year.

Thummala Nageshwar Rao said the food processing units will help the farmers avoid losses caused by the exposure of their produce to untimely rains and ensure them remunerative prices for their produce.