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Of the 32 districts, 100 per cent procurement had been completed in 21 districts with paddy worth Rs 16,878 crore procured

Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy asked the AEOs (Agricultural Extension Officers) to record authentic information with regard to crop booking between second week of June and first week of September

Kamareddy: Nearly 3.38 lakh tonnes of paddy has been purchased from farmers in Kamareddy district during the ongoing Yasangi season. Similarly, efforts are being made to purchase another 80,000 tonnes in the district to achieve the target and complete paddy procurement before May 31, said Kamareddy Collector Sharath. On Saturday, the Collector inspected paddy procurement […]

Despite lockdown, procurement picks pace as TS expects highest yield for the season since the formation of State seven years ago

A majority of the procurement centres proposed have been opened; transactions as per Covid protocols

Minister observed that the staff at procurement centres were not uploading the paddy procurement details though they were given tabs to upload the particulars

The area under paddy cultivation increased from 1.20 lakh acre last Yasangi to 2.80 lakh acre now.

To increase procurement centres to 6,575 over next few days from 650

Production expected to rise to 7.08 lakh tonnes against 3.25 lakh tonne in last year in Siddipet

As many as 179 centres had already started procurement in Nizamabad, Kamareddy, Khammam and Suryapet

A total of 6,408 procurement centres set up across State

Stating that the check dams will be constructed in two phases, he said under phase I, construction of many checkdams had already been taken up on a war-footing under Mission Kakatiya.

"No State has achieved such a feat in the past in India, and that indicates how the Telangana government has supported farming in the past six years, the Minister said

State witnessed a whopping 2.09 crore acres being brought under cultivation during the combined period of Vaanakalam (Kharif) and Yasangi (Rabi) seasons

Extent of area under cultivation zooms to 63.13 lakh acres against the season normal of 36.43 lakh acres

Water was being released from the project for the first time since its inauguration in April 2020

Says no clarity in laws if FCI will procure agri produce in future

With increased irrigation facilities farmers took up paddy cultivation on a large scale

Good spells of rain in past few months resulted in 49% excess rainfall for Yasangi crop season.

A whopping Rs 35,660.65 crore was spent on the scheme since its launch in Vaanakalam (Yasangi) of 2018