Food Secretary Praises Telangana's Efforts to Become a Model State in Food Supply Chain
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Food Secretary Praises Telangana's Efforts to Become a Model State in Food Supply Chain

The Hindu  

Food Secretary Sanjeev Chopra met with Civil Supplies Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy and Principal Secretary, Department of Civil Supplies, D.S. Chauhan to discuss streamlining the system and putting processes in place in Telangana. The Food Secretary advised officials to make Telangana a model State that can be replicated by other States, emphasizing the need for further improvements and strengthening of the system.

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Telangana govt's announcement of Rs 500 bonus on fine paddy pushes cultivation up by 61 per cent
1 month ago

Telangana govt's announcement of Rs 500 bonus on fine paddy pushes cultivation up by 61 per cent

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: In a remarkable achievement, fine variety paddy cultivation in Telangana has gone up by 61 per cent to four million acres this kharif season compared to 2.5 million acres during the same period last year, government sources said on Sunday. On the other hand, the cultivation of non-fine variety paddy declined significantly, dropping from 4.1 million acres to 2.63 …

Telangana government delaying paddy procurement to avoid paying Rs 500 bonus: Bandi Sanjay
1 month, 1 week ago

Telangana government delaying paddy procurement to avoid paying Rs 500 bonus: Bandi Sanjay

New Indian Express  

KARIMNAGAR: Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Sunday alleged the state government was deliberately delaying paddy procurement process as it does not want to pay Rs 500 bonus per quintal of superfine variety grains. Sanjay was interacting with farmers during his visit to paddy procurement centres in Shankarapatnam mandal. Stating that there was no proper …

Visit paddy fields, not Musi: Kishan Reddy
1 month, 1 week ago

Visit paddy fields, not Musi: Kishan Reddy

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Union minister and BJP state president G. Kishan Reddy advised Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to begin his proposed padayatra from the paddy fields to know the plight of the farmers and charged that the state government had not yet started the paddy procurement at Indira Kranti Patham centres even two months after farmers got their produce. Many farmers …

CM Revanth Reddy Warns of Swift Paddy Procurement in Telangana
1 month, 2 weeks ago

CM Revanth Reddy Warns of Swift Paddy Procurement in Telangana

Deccan Chronicle  

Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has instructed officials to take immediate steps for paddy procurement in Telangana. The government has appointed IAS officers as Special Officers to each erstwhile district for the effective implementation of the government schemes and development programs. The Chief Minister urged the officials to speed up paddy procurement and conduct a field visit at the purchase …

150 Lakh MT of Paddy Expected: A Record Procurement Exercise in Telangana
1 month, 2 weeks ago

150 Lakh MT of Paddy Expected: A Record Procurement Exercise in Telangana

Deccan Chronicle  

Civil supplies minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has directed officials to ensure a smooth and efficient paddy procurement process across Telangana. He emphasized the importance of meticulous planning, with a projected paddy harvest of 150 lakh metric tonnes worth Rs 30,000 crore. The government has allocated Rs 20,000 crore for procurement, with an additional provision for additional funds as needed. …

Untimely Rains Prompt Rice Procurement, As State Stocks Arrive in Bulk
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Untimely Rains Prompt Rice Procurement, As State Stocks Arrive in Bulk

The Hindu  

Minister for Civil Supplies N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has instructed the officials of the Civil Supplies Corporation to ensure a smooth and flawless paddy procurement exercise across Telangana. The government has allocated ₹20,000 crore for the purpose and has also increased the milling charges for fine varieties of paddy and common varieties from ₹10 to ₹40.

Union Food Secretary Highlights Paddy Procurement System in Telangana
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Union Food Secretary Highlights Paddy Procurement System in Telangana

Deccan Chronicle  

Union Food Secretary Sanjeev Chopra visited several shops in Telangana to review the implementation of the 'SMART fair price shop scheme'. The scheme aims to ensure fair prices for farmers by providing them with access to credit facilities and fair prices for consumers. Chopra also inspected the quality of rice and wheat being distributed to ensure that it meets the …

Telangana to launch a new weather app for farmers and procurement centres
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Telangana to launch a new weather app for farmers and procurement centres

The Hindu  

In a welcome initiative, the Telangana Government will shortly launch a new weather app to alert procurement centres and farmers on hourly basis about the weather conditions. Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka in his Telangana Budget 2024-25 speech in the State Assembly on Thursday said that in the earlier regime, payments to the farmers for the …

Farmers’ demand timely supply of agricultural inputs
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Farmers’ demand timely supply of agricultural inputs

The Hindu  

The Bangaaru Vaickal Neeradhara Koottamaippu, a water users’ association, has sought the intervention of the Lt. Governor to ensure timely supply of agricultural inputs to farmers during the Sornavari season. In a memorandum to Lt. Radhakrishnan and other officials, V. Chandrasekhar, president of the association, said that though the harvesting of paddy had commenced, the Department of Agriculture had not …

Telangana Cabinet approves Rs 500 bonus to paddy farmers
7 months ago

Telangana Cabinet approves Rs 500 bonus to paddy farmers

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Fulfilling yet another poll promise made during Assembly polls, the Congress government has decided to give Rs 500 per quintal bonus to paddy farmers producing 'sanna vadlu' from the upcoming kharif season. The government has decided to utilise sanna vadlu procured from farmers to produce sanna biyyam for supplying to students in hostels run by welfare departments and also …

Harish Rao urges Telangana CM to procure entire sunflower produced this season at MSP
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Harish Rao urges Telangana CM to procure entire sunflower produced this season at MSP

The Hindu  

Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader and former minister T. Harish Rao has requested Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to procure entire sunflower estimated to be produced in the State this season at the Minimum Support Price of ₹6,760 per quintal as against the plans to procure only 22.5% of the produce. Mr. Rao stated that he had earlier addressed a …

Uttam Kumar Reddy Asks Officials to Expedite Rice Delivery to FCI
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Uttam Kumar Reddy Asks Officials to Expedite Rice Delivery to FCI

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Food and civil supplies minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Monday directed officials to fast track rice delivery to the Food Corporation of India to meet the deadline of January 31. Ambedkar Secretariat with district collectors, civil supplies corporation, and FCI officials, focusing on expediting milling of custom-milled rice by rice millers and its delivery to the FCI. Expressing …

Telangana BJP Applauds Union Government's Increased MSP
1 year, 6 months ago

Telangana BJP Applauds Union Government's Increased MSP

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana BJP expressed its appreciation for the Union government's decision to increase the minimum support price for various crops in the upcoming Kharif crop season and the 2023-24 marketing season. Union minister G. Kishan Reddy highlighted the significant benefits for Telangana farmers, with MSPs having increased by an average of 60 per cent to 80 per cent since …

Centre agrees to procure additional 6.80LTs of parboiled rice from Telangana
1 year, 6 months ago

Centre agrees to procure additional 6.80LTs of parboiled rice from Telangana

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Centre on Friday agreed to procure an additional 6.8 lakh tonnes of parboiled rice from Telangana for the Kharif season 2022-23. This is in addition to the recently approved procurement of 13.73 lakh tonnes of parboiled rice for the Rabi 2021-22 and Kharif 2022-23 kharif seasons. Union minister G. Kishan Reddy who had written to his Cabinet colleague …

Purchase paddy sans conditions: Telangana Kisan Congress
1 year, 7 months ago

Purchase paddy sans conditions: Telangana Kisan Congress

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Leaders of the Telangana Kisan Congress, who tried to meet the civil supplies commissioner seeking redressal of farmer’s grievances and other irregularities in purchase of paddy in the guise of wastage, were taken into custody on Saturday. The paddy that is yet to be purchased is getting soaked in rains and farmers are facing problems owing to this,” wrote …

TS govt to set up 7,100 procurement centres to purchase paddy from Tuesday
1 year, 8 months ago

TS govt to set up 7,100 procurement centres to purchase paddy from Tuesday

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The state government has decided to set up procurement centres from Tuesday to purchase paddy from farmers at minimum support price for ongoing rabi season, as directed by Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao. Chief Secretary A.Santhi Kumari, additional collectors, civil supplies officials, depot managers of all districts besides officials from Food Corporation of India attended the meeting. The government …

Huge financial burden on Telangana in the offing in new Public Distribution System policy
1 year, 11 months ago

Huge financial burden on Telangana in the offing in new Public Distribution System policy

The Hindu  

The Telangana government will face a huge financial burden on one more count, this time with the recent decision of Centre to give New Year’s gift to the country’s poor by supplying free rice under the National Food Security Act. Currently, the Centre is implementing Prime Minister’s Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana by allocating rice to States for supply to its …

KTR asks Goyal to order ‘One nation - One procurement\'
2 years, 3 months ago

KTR asks Goyal to order ‘One nation - One procurement\'

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Coming down heavily against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for neglecting Telangana state while providing funds for development activities, TRS working president and minister K.T. Rama Rao wrote to Union food minister Piyush Goyal to implement the ‘One nation - One procurement’ policy to purchase paddy, wheat and broken rice to prevent scarcity of food grains in the country. Rao …

BJP intervenes, Sanjay says rice procurement in state will start again
2 years, 5 months ago

BJP intervenes, Sanjay says rice procurement in state will start again

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Telangana state BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Friday said the Centre responded positively to a request from him to extend by one month purchase of custom-milled rice from the state. It may be recalled that rice millers in Telangana state have been complaining for some time that the Food Corporation of India had stopped rice purchases from the …

Minister: Rice purchase is State business
2 years, 8 months ago

Minister: Rice purchase is State business

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Civil supplies minister Gangula Kamalakar on Thursday criticised Union tourism minister G. Kishan Reddy for stating that the state government had failed to make arrangements for the procurement of paddy, and that 4.5 lakh 100-kg bags of rice were missing from the mills. "Kishan Reddy should clarify whether the Centre has paid a single rupee to the state government …

Telangana: Farmers dump paddy outside BJP MP\'s residence
2 years, 8 months ago

Telangana: Farmers dump paddy outside BJP MP\'s residence

Deccan Chronicle  

Nizamabad: Farmers on Tuesday staged a protest against the Centre at the residence of the Bharatiya Janata Party MP Arvind Dharmapuri, dumping paddy outside his house in the Nizamabad district of Telangana. After Dharmapuri accused the TRS MLA of orchestrating the protest, Reddy said that Telangana farmers are unhappy with the BJP's "step-motherly treatment", asking the Centre to explain the …

TS decides to buy paddy at MSP; revokes GO 111
2 years, 8 months ago

TS decides to buy paddy at MSP; revokes GO 111

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Tuesday announced that the government had decided to purchase paddy at minimum support price from farmers in the rabi season, which will cost the state about Rs 3,500 crore. For that reason, we have decided to purchase paddy on our own although it may put an additional burden of Rs 3,500 crore on …

Centre ready to buy rice: Kishan Reddy
2 years, 8 months ago

Centre ready to buy rice: Kishan Reddy

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Union minister for tourism and culture G. Kishan Reddy alleged that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao was provoking farmers on paddy procurement for protecting his family political interests. Chandrashekar Rao was terming BJP an ‘anti-farmers party’ by spreading false propaganda on paddy and rice procurement, he said and made it clear that the Central government was ready to procure …

Centre can\'t buy all paddy stock, clarifies Goyal
2 years, 8 months ago

Centre can\'t buy all paddy stock, clarifies Goyal

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: In a setback to Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, the Centre on Wednesday clearly indicated that it is not possible to procure the entire paddy produced in any state on the grounds that procurement depends on multiple factors and not just on production. The Chief Minister earlier on Monday strongly demanded that the Centre procure 100 per cent paddy …

Telangana’s paddy procurement problem
3 years, 1 month ago

Telangana’s paddy procurement problem

The Hindu  

The story so far: The relationship between the Bharatiya Janata Party -led Government at the Centre and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi Government has deteriorated over the past few weeks over the issue of paddy procurement. The TRS Government insists that 90% of the paddy produced in the State should be procured by the Centre and that the Centre should complete …

With mountains of paddy at FCI, Centre unlikely to heed KCR plea
3 years, 1 month ago

With mountains of paddy at FCI, Centre unlikely to heed KCR plea

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Centre on Thursday reiterated its limitations in procuring paddy and boiled rice even as Telangana Chief Minister Chandrasekhar Rao staged a Maha Dharna in the city demanding that the Centre procure 90 per cent of the paddy grown in the state. According to the note, currently par-boiled rice stock available with the Food Corporation of India was 46.28 …

Over 61 Lakh Farmers in Telangana to Receive Aid Worth Rs 7,500 Crore under 'Rythu Bandhu' Scheme
3 years, 11 months ago

Over 61 Lakh Farmers in Telangana to Receive Aid Worth Rs 7,500 Crore under 'Rythu Bandhu' Scheme

News 18  

Over Rs 7,500 crore would be disbursed to 61.49 lakh farmers in Telangana under the TRS government's 'Rythu Bandhu' financial assistance scheme from Monday, Chief Minister K Chandrasekar Rao said. At the meeting, officials said farmers can sell their crop anywhere under the new farm laws and the state government need not set up purchase centres in villages. The review …

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