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Hyderabad: Farmers across the State began Sankranti festivities early with the Rythu Bandhu farm investment support scheme reaching the milestone mark of Rs 50,000 crore deposited into the bank accounts of ryots in Telangana. More than 64 lakh of the total 66 lakh farmers have received their farm investment for the current Yasangi (Rabi) season, […]

Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy demanded that the Central government should give a written assurance to the Telangana government over enhancing targets for paddy procurement during the Vaanakalam (Kharif) season. He sought Union Minister for Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal to increase the Vaanakalam target from 60 lakh tonnes of paddy (i.e. 40 […]

Hyderabad: Union Food and Public Distribution Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday sought to blame the Telangana government, claiming that the State government had failed to supply the quantity of rice as per the agreement. In Vaanakalam 2020-21 season, Telangana was expected to supply 50 lakh tonnes of rice but delivered only 32.66 lakh tonnes. In […]

All along, the BJP leader has been instigating farmers to cultivate only paddy, but now the Centre says it won’t procure parboiled rice

Nirmal: Forest Minister A Indrakaran Reddy sought clarity from the Union government over procurement of paddy. As per a call given by Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, he participated in a day-long protest in Nirmal on Friday. Addressing a gathering, Indrakaran said that the protest was aimed at highlighting dual stance of the Centre with […]

Karimnagar: Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar found fault with BJP for trying to misguide farmers by staging dharnas demanding the State government to purchase paddy produced in Vaanakalam season. It was meaningless to stage dharnas while the State government has already started procurement by opening paddy purchase centres across the State. The BJP leaders, who […]

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao slammed BJP State president Bandi Sanjay for resorting to personal abuse rather than responding to his questions. He stated that people with poor subject knowledge and lack of understanding of administrative affairs, make such personal abuses. Speaking to mediapersons at Pragathi Bhavan here on Monday, the TRS President advised […]

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: For fourth consecutive season, the State government will procure entire paddy produced in the State during the ensuing Vaanakalam 2021-22 season. The Telangana State Civil Supplies Corporation, which is the nodal agency for paddy procurement, has been instructed to procure the season’s entire paddy production of an estimated 1.34 crore tonnes. The State government […]

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has appealed to the Centre again to revise its paddy procurement to at least 80 lakh tonnes from the proposed 60 lakh tonnes for Vaanakalam (Kharif) season 2021-22. He is also learnt to have urged enhanced procurement of parboiled rice up to 80-90 per cent of total rice procured […]

Hyderabad: With the Central government refusing to purchase paddy beyond the allocated quota, the State government will procure only 60 lakh tonnes of paddy through the procurement centres for the Vaanakalam (Kharif) season. The officials of Agriculture Department were asked to sensitise people in this regard. The State government had procured the entire yield during […]

State to increase godown storage capacity from the existing 24 lakh tonnes to 64 lakh tonnes

Hyderabad: Telangana is likely become the largest producer of paddy in the country yet again. With paddy being cultivated in about 55 lakh acres during the ongoing Vaanakalam (Kharif) season, the paddy production estimates are pegged at 1.48 crore tonnes. Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy instructed the officials to create adequate godown space for storing […]

Sowing operations have been completed in about 82.49 lakh acres covering nearly 70.7 per cent of the normal cultivation area of 1.16 crore acres for Vaanakalam (Kharif) season this year.

In a problem of plenty, farmers under Nizamsagar urge officials not to release water for Vaanakalam crops

Karimnagar: Water from the Lower Manair Dam was released into the Kakatiya canal on Monday for the Vaanakalam crops. As many as 3,000 cusecs would be released every day for 10 days, and if necessary, the water release would be increased to 5,000 cusecs. BC Welfare and Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar, along with Karimnagar […]

Kamareddy: Much to the delight of farmers in erstwhile Nizamabad district, the State government has released water from Nizam Sagar project to cater to the needs of cultivation during Vaanakalam (Kharif) season. Assembly Speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, along with Roads and Buildings Minister Vemula Prashanth Reddy, formally released the water on Monday. Speaking on the […]

Early rains help farmers commence sowing in about 27.6 lakh acres

Farm operations commenced in about 18.88 lakh acres across the State with cotton alone sown in around 14.82 lakh acres and red gram in 1.58 lakh acres

Rajanna-Sircilla: Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao on Monday announced that water would be released from Upper Manair reservoir in the first week of July. For the first time in the history of the reservoir, water would be released from the project to irrigate crops in Vaanakalam season. Rama Rao, who made […]