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Hyderabad: Promoting extensive cultivation of pulses in Yasangi (Rabi) season, the State government has decided to approach the union government to purchase the entire crop produced by farmers in the State. So far, the Centre has been purchasing only 25 per cent of the total production at Minimum Support Price (MSP). “To this effect, we […]
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Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the recent public meeting in Hyderabad, cried hoarse about the Centre not discriminating against Telangana. Facts, however, speak louder than his claims. The BJP government at the Centre continues to remain passive to the Telangana government’s repeated requests for procurement of about 50.24 lakh tonnes of paddy from the […]
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Khammam: With an objective of benefiting farmers in the State, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao opened yasangi paddy procurement centres across the State, stated ministers Puvvada Ajay Kumar and Gangula Kamalakar. The ministers reviewed paddy procurement, payments to farmers and arrangements made at procurement centres in Khammam and Kothagudem districts here on Saturday. Civil Supplies […]
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Siddipet: Finance Minister T Harish Rao has termed the Food Corporation of India (FCI) officials’ inspection of 2,990 rice mils in Telangana at a time when the paddy procurement is underway as a conspiracy of the union government. Speaking to news reporters after a visit to Agriculture Market in Siddipet on Thursday, the Minister has […]
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Karimnagar: BC Welfare and Civil Supplies Minister, Gangula Kamalakar wanted the FCI authorities to stop physical verifications in rice mills. The Central government was creating hurdles to shift paddy to rice mills in the name of physical verification, he said and asked FCI officials not to create troubles for farmers and rice millers in the […]
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Mancherial: Agriculture Minister Singireddy Niranjan Reddy said that the government was giving paramount importance to the agriculture sector, which plays a vital role in the growth of a society. He along with Forest Minister toured erstwhile Adilabad district on Monday. Niranjan and Indrakaran initially took part in an awareness meeting over crops of vanakalam season […]
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Medak: Medak MP Kotha Prabhakar Reddy said Chief Minister K Chandrashekar has decided to procure paddy even though it is a huge burden on the State government’s exchequer. He said that the Telangana government will spend over Rs 4,000 crore with the sole aim of protecting the farmers. Addressing the farmers after inaugurating the paddy […]
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Hyderabad: The issue of broken rice and parboiled rice is far from over. While the Telangana government came to the rescue of farmers and decided to procure nearly 65 lakh tonnes of paddy during Yasangi this year, experts feel that the Centre must take immediate measures to tap export potential. Ever since the issue of […]
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Karimnagar: Telangana Planning Board vice-chairman B Vinod Kumar assured that the state government would procure the entire paddy produced by the farmers in the Yasangi season. Vinod Kumar along with Choppadandi MLA Sunke Ravishankar inaugurated a paddy procurement center in Tadagonda of Boinpalli mandal on Sunday. Speaking on the occasion, Vinod Kumar said that the […]
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Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said farmers were convinced with State Government’s intentions to avoid paddy cultivation in Yasangi and were taking up alternate crops extensively across the State. Despite repeated pleas by State Government last year, many farmers did not take up cotton cultivation. As a result, they failed to reap good profits, […]
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Hyderabad: Notwithstanding the Centre’s regressive policies on agriculture, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao asked the authorities to take all measures to safeguard the interests of farmers in Telangana. He wanted them to encourage farmers to take up cultivation of alternative crops like cotton, chilli, red gram and water-melon as well as rationalise usage of fertilisers. […]
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Warangal: With the harvest of the yasangi paddy to begin in 10 days in the district, the officials are planning to set up more than 186 paddy procurement centres in the district to help the paddy farmers. As per the preliminary estimations, 1.86 lakh metric tonnes (MT) of the paddy will be expected in the […]
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Nalgonda: With confidence reposed on the Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, farmers had begun bringing the harvested paddy to procurement centres about a week before the announcement of the Chief Minister on paddy purchase. It indicated the faith in farmers on the Chief Minister over purchase of their crop and protection of their interests. Interestingly, […]
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Nalgonda: Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy on Wednesday asked the elected representatives and Rythu Bandhu Samithi members to cooperate with the officials for purchase of paddy from the farmers through paddy procurement centres. Holding a meeting with the officials, DCCB and Rythu Bandhu Samithi members of of Nalgonda, Yadadri-Bhongir and Suryappet district held in Udhyaditya […]
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Karimnagar: TRS workers and farmers hailed the State government’s decision to procure paddy in the Yasangi season. Thanking Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao for taking the decision in favour of farmers, they performed palabhishekam to his portrait in various villages of the erstwhile Karimangar district on Wednesday. The State Cabinet meeting chaired by the Chief […]
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Karimnagar: TRS workers and farmers hailed the state government’s decision to procure paddy in the Yasangi season. Thanking the Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao for taking the decision in favor of farmers, they performed palabhishekam to the portrait of the Chief Minister across the erstwhile Karimangar district on Wednesday. State cabinet meeting held under the […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana government has decided to procure paddy produced in the State during Yasangi in the backdrop of the Centre’s stubborn attitude in turning down the State government’s request for procurement of paddy. This decision was taken at the State cabinet which met for more than five hours in Hyderabad. Briefing media after the cabinet […]
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Suryapet: Expressing anger over the fall in paddy price, a group of farmers on Saturday damaged three weighing machines and set fire to dumps of paddy in in Agricultural market yard at Suryapet and laid a seige on the market yard office. With the paddy price falling to Rs 1200 per quintal from yesterday’s price […]
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Hyderabad: A determined TRS intensified its agitation against the BJP government at the Centre on its biased paddy procurement policy on Friday, when party leaders, activists, farmers and the general public hoisted black flags atop their residences and major junctions across the 12,769 gram panchayats in the State. They took to the streets in some […]
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Karimnagar: The general body meeting of Municipal Corporation of Karimnagar, passed a unanimous resolution demanding that the central government purchase each and every grain produced during Yasangi and Rabi seasons in the state. The general body meeting, held under the chair of Mayor Y Sunil Rao here on Thursday, adopted the resolution in the wake […]