Rain fear drives farmers to undersell fine variety paddy to millers
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Rain fear drives farmers to undersell fine variety paddy to millers

New Indian Express  

NALGONDA: Majority of the farmers in the district who have grown fine variety of paddy are underselling their produce to millers directly. Of this, fine variety of paddy is grown in 53 per cent of the area and coarse variety in the remaining 47 percent area. The civil supplies department is expecting 4,70,000 metric tons of coarse rice paddy and 2,80,000 metric tonnes of fine rice paddy at the IKP centres for procurement. If there is a sharp shower, I will lose the entire produce.” The IKP centres will pay MSP Rs 2,320 if the moisture is less than the prescribed limit of 17 per cent.

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Ryots face hurdles in getting paddy from field to mill in Telangana
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Ryots face hurdles in getting paddy from field to mill in Telangana

New Indian Express  

NALGONDA: With the government procurement of paddy underway, farmers highlight a new kind of issue. Though the process is extremely arduous, it is critical for paddy farmers, who put in their sweat, blood and almost their entire life savings apart from borrowed money to cultivate one batch, sources said. At Indira Kranthi Patham centres, for instance, one kilogram of paddy …

Odisha Minister Patra warns mill owners against purchase of paddy from farmers
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Odisha Minister Patra warns mill owners against purchase of paddy from farmers

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR: Food Supplies minister Krushna Chandra Patra on Saturday warned rice mill owners of serious consequences if they attempted to purchase paddy from farmers. Patra’s warning came following reports that some millers have been purchasing paddy directly from farmers at rates almost half of the enhanced minimum support price of Rs 3,100 per quintal. “It has come to the notice …

Paddy glut: Farmers told to take harvest holiday
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Paddy glut: Farmers told to take harvest holiday

New Indian Express  

NALGONDA: The district administration, which finds it difficult to deal with a glut of paddy supply at the purchase centres, is persuading farmers to put off harvesting operations for some time. Consequently, every day rice mills in the district are seeing a heavy rush of farmers eager to sell their produce as they fear that an unexpected rain could damage …

Farmers protest as millers refuse to pay MSP for paddy in Telangana
2 months ago

Farmers protest as millers refuse to pay MSP for paddy in Telangana

New Indian Express  

NALGONDA: Allegations are rife that the millers are causing trouble to farmers by not purchasing the grain at the MSP fixed by the Central government. The farmers bring two types of paddy to the purchase centres, but the millers are not buying the grain from IKP centres, due to a high moisture content. Meanwhile, IKP centre organisers said that farmers …

Paddy procurement in Punjab going on smoothly, says Centre
2 months ago

Paddy procurement in Punjab going on smoothly, says Centre

The Hindu  

Amid complaints and protests by farmers’ organisations in Punjab that paddy procurement from the State has been delayed, the Centre said on Saturday that the Food Corporation of India and the State agencies have procured 120.67 lakh metric tonnes paddy from the State. The Centre said so far 6.58 lakh farmers in the State have received the benefits of procurement …

Govt to Cover Extra Costs for Paddy Storage: Uttam
2 months ago

Govt to Cover Extra Costs for Paddy Storage: Uttam

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Civil supplies minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy directed officials to expedite paddy procurement and told civil supplies commissioner and department officials to shift the paddy to intermediary godowns wherever millers were not cooperating. Uttam Kumar Reddy highlighted that Telangana was expected to achieve a record yield of nearly 150 lakh metric tonnes of paddy, making this year’s procurement process …

Procurement Will Pick Up Pace Soon: Civil Supplies Officials
2 months ago

Procurement Will Pick Up Pace Soon: Civil Supplies Officials

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The government’s decision to announce a bonus of Rs 500 for fine varieties of paddy appears to have boosted their production in the state, delaying the arrival of paddy at procurement centres, say civil supplies department officials. Farmers have sown paddy in more land this year at 66,69,641 acres compared to 57,18,527 acres last year, which poses challenges to …

Just 5 days to go for procurement to kick off, bumper paddy yield may spell more trouble for Punjab
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Just 5 days to go for procurement to kick off, bumper paddy yield may spell more trouble for Punjab

Hindustan Times  

Punjab is expecting a bumper yield of 230 lakh tonne paddy this kharif season, with harvesting starting in some patches of the state and freshly harvested produce expected to arrive in the mandis by October 1. A total of 175 lakh tonnes of food grain is still stored in the godowns of four state procurement agencies, Pungrain, Markfed, Punsup and …

We Will Distribute Six Kg Fine Rice to Three Crore People: Uttam
3 months, 2 weeks ago

We Will Distribute Six Kg Fine Rice to Three Crore People: Uttam

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Civil supplies minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said that the Civil Supplies Corporation would distribute six kg of fine rice to each of the three crore people in the state from January. The government will also give Rs 500 as a bonus for fine rice paddy from the Kharif season, while separate procurement centres would be set up for …

Paddy purchase declines as farmers hold back in run-up to elections
1 year, 2 months ago

Paddy purchase declines as farmers hold back in run-up to elections

Live Mint  

Government procurement of paddy has fallen as farmers hold back on selling their crop, hoping for sops ahead of Assembly elections in five states this year. The union government, through the federal Food Corporation of India and state agencies, has procured 14.7 million tonnes of paddy in the ongoing kharif marketing season that started on 1 October, as against 15.9 …

TS govt to set up 7,100 procurement centres to purchase paddy from Tuesday
1 year, 9 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 …

Millers buy more paddy from farmers than Telangana govt
2 years, 1 month ago

Millers buy more paddy from farmers than Telangana govt

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Rice millers have purchased more paddy from farmers than the stage government in the kharif procurement season, which began in the last week of October. Farmers associations said the growers preferred to sell to millers, even at prices below the minimum support price due to the government's delay in opening procurement centres. The first, farmers are in dire need …

State at less than 2% of paddy procurement target
2 years, 2 months ago

State at less than 2% of paddy procurement target

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Paddy procurement by the state government for the kharif season is yet to pick up pace, with procurement of only 1.5 lakh tonnes, against a target of one crore tonnes, completed so far. The government initiated paddy procurement in the last week of October by opening 2,000 centres in Nizamabad and Nalgonda districts, where paddy generally arrives first. This …

IKP centres fail to help farmers dry wet paddy
2 years, 7 months ago

IKP centres fail to help farmers dry wet paddy

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Farmers from Rajanna-Siricilla, Nizamabad, Jagtial, Kamareddy, Nagarkurnool, Wanaparthy, Warangal, Mahbubnagar and Nalgonda districts are in turmoil. Bemoaning that they have been left to fend for themselves, farmers said officials manning IKP centres set up for paddy procurement are not helping them, farmers say. “It rained again today,” a farmer who had brought his five-tractor trailer loads of paddy a …

Farmers want TS to buy drenched paddy
2 years, 7 months ago

Farmers want TS to buy drenched paddy

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: Farmers are knocking at the doors of the state government for help as large stocks of their paddy were drenched in the unexpected rain in recent days. Farmers complained that the officials were cutting the weight in the name of high moisture content in the paddy that they brought to purchasing centres for sale. Forest minister Allola Indrakaran said …

Only 10 per cent of paddy purchase centres open in Khammam district
2 years, 8 months ago

Only 10 per cent of paddy purchase centres open in Khammam district

Deccan Chronicle  

Khammam: State government has opened only about 10 percent of its proposed 236 paddy procurement centres in Khammam district on Thursday. Procurement of paddy by state government in Khammam district formally commenced with transport minister P. Ajay Kumar inaugurating the purchasing centre at Manchukonda in Raghunathapalem mandal on Thursday. Paddy had been raised over 98,000 acres in Khammam district against …

TS purchases paddy to fill Centre’s 46LT rice order
3 years ago

TS purchases paddy to fill Centre’s 46LT rice order

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana government has completed the purchase of paddy from the farmers to produce 46 lakh tonnes of rice, which the Centre had agreed to purchase from the state in the Kharif season. The government needed to procure 68.65 lakh tonnes of paddy which when milled produces 46 LT of rice, civil supplies minister Gangula Kamalakar said. He said …

Shady traders take paddy farmers for a ride
3 years, 7 months ago

Shady traders take paddy farmers for a ride

Deccan Chronicle  

Nizamabad/Kamareddy: Taking advantage of Covid-19 pandemic, big traders and middlemen are looting farmers in paddy procurement in connivance with a few primary agriculture cooperative societies, rice millers and transport operators. Paddy bags were piled up either at primary agricultural societies or on rice mills premises as no authorities came forward to complete the procurement process. “We slapped a penalty on …

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