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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 […]
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Hyderabad: The union government’s stubborn attitude in refusing to procure the Yasangi paddy harvest from Telangana can only mean two things – that it stands completely exposed in understanding the global market needs or it is guilty of wilful rejection of the State’s genuine pleas. There has been a growing demand for broken rice in […]
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Hyderabad: The TRS legislators on Sunday slammed the BJP-led union government for being vengeful towards farmers and discriminating the non-BJP-ruled States like Telangana. They said with the fear that Telangana would overtake Gujarat in economic growth, the Centre was rejecting requests from the State for paddy procurement. Speaking to mediapersons at TRS Legislative Party office […]
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Hanamkonda: An emergency general body meeting of the Zilla Parishad has passed a resolution demanding the Centre to procure the entire paddy of the Yasangi season from Telangana here on Sunday. The meeting was chaired by ZP chairman Sudhir Kumar, and attended several ZPTCs, MPPs and ex-officio members. The members have also criticised the BJP […]
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Siddipet: Finance Minister T Harish Rao on Sunday said union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal humiliated Telangana and its people by suggesting that the citizens of the State consume broken rice when a Ministerial delegation from the State met him to request procurement of Yasangi paddy. Speaking in several programmes […]
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Nalgonda: The Zilla Parishad general body meeting on Sunday adopted a resolution demanding the Centre to procure paddy of Yasangi crop season from the State. The general body meeting was called by Zilla Parishad Chairman Banda Narender Reddy was taken up single point agenda of the resolution. The meeting was unanimously passed resolution on the […]
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Warangal: TRS leader and former Mayor Gunda Prakash Rao, former director SAAP, Rajanala Srihari and several others have staged a dharna in front of BJP district office here on Friday demanding that the Centre purchase paddy. They brought several bags of paddy in a bullock cart and dumped them at the office. Speaking on the […]
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Hyderabad: Striking a touch posture on paddy procurement, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Monday demanded that Centre procure the entire Yasangi paddy crop produced in Telangana State just as it was doing in the case of Punjab and Haryana. “If the BJP government at the Centre fails to heed our demand, we will launch […]
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Hyderabad: The TRS party is preparing to launch a prolonged political battle to pressurise the BJP-led Central Government on paddy procurement in Yasangi season as was being done in northern States like Punjab. This decision to launch the agitation was taken by TRS president and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, who held an improptu meeting […]
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Hyderabad: In a remarkable and welcome development during this Yasangi season’s sowing operations that are nearing completion, many farmers across the State have opted for alternative crops to paddy. More importantly, cultivation of pulses and oil seeds has hit a new high in Telangana that is in tune with the State government’s appeal for crop […]
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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, […]
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Hyderabad: Distribution of amount under Rythu Bandhu farm investment support scheme continued for the sixth consecutive day in its eighth phase. On Tuesday, authorities deposited Rs 512.26 crore directly into the bank accounts of 1.91 lakh farmers. Till date, around 59.51 lakh farmers received Rs 5,806.35 crore during the ongoing Yasangi (Rabi) season. In a […]
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Hyderabad: The eighth phase of distribution of Rythu Bandhu amount will commence from Tuesday, marking a milestone achievement of distribution of Rs 50,000 crore in the State since its inception. Till date, about Rs 43,036.63 crore have been deposited into the bank accounts of farmers and the State government has released Rs 7,645.66 crore for […]
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Nalgonda: In addition to 4,76,727 farmers covered by Rythu Bandhu, 16,419 farmers are going to get the benefit of the scheme from December 28 for the yasangi season in Nalgonda district. According to official figures, the total number of the farmers covered by Rythu Bandhu would reach 4,93,146 in yasangi as against 4,55.392 in kharif […]
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Hyderabad: The State government’s efforts to motivate farmers to go for alternative crops in the wake of Centre’s decision not to procure paddy seems to be yielding desired results. Like many farmers, V Anand from Chapta (K) village in Kangti mandal of Sangareddy district has cultivated garlic and groundnut in one acre and 1.5 acres […]
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Karimnagar: TRS activists, along with farmers, on Monday staged protest demonstrations in all the villages across the erstwhile Karimnagar district against the Union government’s decision not to procure paddy this Yasangi season. Responding to Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s call to stage State-wide protests against the Centre’s decision, the TRS workers along with farmers and […]
