Rice millers demanding additional prices: Farmers
Deccan ChronicleKAKINADA: Civil Supplies Minister Karumuri Nageswara faced an embarrassing situation from the farmers on Monday when he went to Nachugunta village in Unguturu mandal of Eluru district. The minister said 12 rice mills have been seized on the charge of violating the guidelines in paddy purchase and that the government would not spare anybody who cheats farmers. The minister said that he along with the agriculture commissioner and district joint collector visited Aakuteegalapadu village recently and the farmers told them that the government has credited the amounts to them towards the paddy sale. Home minister Taneti Vanitha told the media in Kovvuru in East Godavari district that Chandrababu Naidu had never given crop insurance or input subsidy to the farmers on time even during the cyclones and other national calamities.