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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Rabi sowing on, Punjab still faces DAP shortage of 1.28 lakh tonnes

Punjab is facing acute shortage of di-ammonia phosphate, a key soil nutrient required for growing crops sown at the onset of winters, even as the rabi sowing season has started. Punjab’s annual requirement of DAP is 8.5 lakh tonnes. As on date, the state has 3.52 lakh tonnes of DAP against the rabi’s sowing season requirement of 4.8 lakh tonnes, …

Farmers Ssp Tonnes Lakh Shortage Rabi Punjab State

2 months ago

Record Foodgrain Production Despite Fertiliser Shortage: Centre

Hindustan Times

Despite the challenges posed by the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran, the Centre on Saturday expressed confidence in achieving record foodgrain production in the 2024-25 rabi season. The state has a sufficient supply of key fertilisers, such as urea and diammonium phosphate (DAP), despite the delay in shipments due to geopolitical tensions and disruption of Red Sea routes.

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2 months ago

Rythu Bharosa of ₹7,500 Announced for Rabi Season: Centre to Provide Relief to 22 Lakh Farmers

Deccan Chronicle

The Telangana government has announced that Rythu Bharosa of Rs 7,500 will be provided to all farmers in the state from the Rabi season. The government will complete the loan waiver for the remaining farmers by December. The minister also informed that the Centre was buying only 25 per cent of the pulses purchased by the state government at MSP. …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

DAP ‘shortage’ has Punjab farmers worried ahead of rabi season

Hindustan Times

Ahead of the wheat sowing season, the ‘low availability’ of Di-Ammonium Phosphate, an essential chemical fertiliser for rabi crops, has left the farmers worried. State agriculture director Jaswant Singh, however, denied a shortage of DAP but he was reluctant to share data on the current stock available with the state. Official sources said that in 2023, the central government had …

Wheat State Punjab Bathinda Singh Tonnes Sowing

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Full Water Supply for Kharif, Rabi: Ponguleti

Deccan Chronicle

Khammam: The project ayacut farmers would get water supply for both the crop seasons this year as irrigation projects were bemiring with water, said minister for revenue and housing Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy on Wednesday while releasing water to the left main canal from Palair reservoir at Kusumanchi in Khammam district. The minister informed that the irrigation tanks in Palaiar constituency …

Water Project Irrigation Projects Khammam Palair Palair Reservoir

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Telangana procured 48 lakh MT paddy in this Rabi season

New Indian Express

HYDERABAD : Paddy procurement for the Rabi season has concluded in the state. The government procured 48 lakh metric tonnes from nearly nine lakh farmers, disbursing payments amounting to Rs 10,547 crore to the accounts of 8,99,546 farmers as MSP. To facilitate the procurement during the Rabi season, the government operated 7,178 procurement centres, an increase from 6,889 centres last …

Procurement Metric Tonnes

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Hyderabad: Less Paddy Procured as Market Price Was Higher

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: The State Civil Supplies Corporation has informed that by the end of rabi season, around nine lakh farmers were paid Rs 10,547 crores in just three days for the 48 lakh metric tonnes of paddy procured from them. The corporation which started operations early by March 25 opened 7,178 purchase centres this rabi season. The corporation had initially set …

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Unending woes of Telangana’s farmers

The Hindu

Exactly a month ago, Telangana farmer Itharaveni Rajesham succumbed to heat stroke while perched atop a small heap of 38 quintals of paddy, waiting for his turn to sell it at a government-run procurement centre in Ragampeta village, 28 km from the Karimnagar district headquarters. “He was visibly exhausted, shuttling between his house and the procurement centre to sell his …

Farmers Procurement Telangana Crop Paddy State Bjp

9 months ago

Registration for rabi paddy purchase in Odisha till March 27

New Indian Express

BHUBANESWAR: The state government has extended the last date of registration of farmers for procurement of rabi paddy at minimum support price by a week till March 27, 2024. Like last year, the state government has decided to procure rabi paddy for the kharif marketing season 2023-24 from 17 districts of Balasore, Bargarh, Balangir, Cuttack, Jajpur, Jharsuguda, Kalahandi, Khurda, Koraput, …

Registration Paddy Rabi Rabi Paddy

1 year, 1 month ago

Union Cabinet approves subsidy on P and K fertilisers for Rabi crop season

India TV News

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved subsidy worth Rs 22,303 crore on P&K fertilisers for the current Rabi season to ensure that the Indian farmers are not affected by the rising prices of fertilisers in the international market. The Minister said di-ammonium phosphate will continue to be sold at the old rate of Rs 1,350 per bag, while …

Cabinet Rate Rabi Thakur Kg Subsidy

1 year, 6 months ago

Paddy procurement of 64.5L tonnes in 2022-23 rabi second highest

The Hindu

An amount of ₹3,000 crore was credited to farmers’ bank accounts at one go on Friday in lieu of sale of paddy produced by them this rabi season at the procurement centres set up by different government agencies under the aegis of Telangana State Civil Supplies Corporation. Minister for Civil Supplies Gangula Kamalakar said on Friday that 64.52 lakh tonnes …

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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 …

Rice Telangana Centre Parboiled Rice

1 year, 8 months ago

10,727 tonnes of wheat procured; ban on exports continues

The Hindu

The Food Corporation of India’s Chairman and Managing Director Ashok K. Meena said the Centre would continue the ban on wheat export till it was confident about domestic supplies meeting the country’s food security needs. Mr. Meena said 10,727 metric tonnes of wheat have been procured up to March 27 this rabi season. He said the FCI estimates procurement of …

Wheat State Meena

1 year, 9 months ago

Cabinet meet on March 9 to review salaries, pension

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: The crucial Cabinet meeting on March 9 — the first since December 10, 2022 — is expected to take a decision to constitute a new pay revision commission to revise salaries and pensions for government employees and pensioners, as well as approve welfare schemes for various sections with an eye on the Assembly elections. The Cabinet is also expected …

Rice Paddy State Centre Cabinet Lakh Expected

1 year, 11 months ago

Paddy cultivation in rabi season exceeds estimates in Telangana

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Paddy cultivation in the ongoing rabi season in Telangana has surpassed expectations and projections. Data obtained from the agriculture department for the week ended January 11 showed that the normal crop sown area for paddy in the rabi season is 33,53,921 acres. Agriculture officials cite last year’s lower paddy cultivation to restrictions imposed by the Centre, which had refused …

Farmers Rice Power Telangana Paddy Centre Paddy Cultivation

1 year, 11 months ago

India's wheat output may set new record of over 112 lakh tonnes in 2022-23: govt. officials

The Hindu

The country's wheat production is likely to set a new record of more than 112 million tonnes in the 2022-23 crop year, according to official sources. Wheat production had declined to 106.84 million tonnes due to heat wave in key growing states in 2021-22 crop year, as per the agriculture ministry data. In 2020-21, the country had achieved record wheat …

Crop Lakh Record Wheat

1 year, 11 months ago

21 lakh Telangana farmers receive Rs 607 cr Rythu Bandhu

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: For the ongoing rabi season, 21.02 lakh farmers received Rs 607.32 crore in their bank accounts towards Rythu Bandhu on Wednesday at a rate of Rs 5,000 per acre, while BRS leaders, workers, and farmers held rallies thanking Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao by chanting the BRS campaign slogan ‘Ab Ki Baar, Kisan Sarkar’. Despite financial constraints, the CM …

Farmers Lakh Brs Rythu Acre Rythu Bandhu Rabi Season

2 years ago

In Telangana, Rythu Bandhu, Dalit Bandhu take a backseat due to fund crunch

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: The Telangana government's severe fund crunch has forced the Cabinet, which met at Pragathi Bhavan on Saturday under the chairmanship of Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, to postpone a decision on releasing funds for Rythu Bandhu and Dalit Bandhu this month. The Cabinet was supposed to take a decision on releasing funds for Rythu Bandhu for the ongoing rabi …

Delhi Dalit Fund Cabinet Funds Brs Rythu

2 years, 1 month 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 …

Procurement Paddy State Paddy Procurement Centres Procurement Centres

$Centre\'s relief to TS Govt: Extends deadline for kharif rice procurement$

2 years, 1 month ago

Centre\'s relief to TS Govt: Extends deadline for kharif rice procurement

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: In a relief to Telangana state government, the Centre’s Food Corporation of India has extended the deadline by one month until November 30 to hand over rice stocks of the previous kharif season 2021-22 after milling. It also agreed to procure an additional four lakh tonnes of fortified boiled rice stocks from the state pertaining to recent rabi season …

Stocks Rice Telangana State Season Centre Tonnes

2 years, 3 months ago

Paddy growers in Nellore upbeat as market remains bullish

The Hindu

Farmers in Nellore district are making hay while the sun shines as the market price of paddy has gone up thanks to high demand for non-basmati rice from abroad. The farmers faced problems in selling paddy during rabi due to relatively high moisture content in their produce as the millers took additional 10% more paddy on this count then. A …

Market Farmers Rice Paddy

2 years, 5 months ago

Over 50 lakh tonne paddy piled up in mills as FCI stop purchase

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: Finance minister T. Harish Rao and civil supplies minister Gangula Kamalakar on Friday held a meeting with Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar and other senior officials of civil supplies department at BRKR Bhavan to discuss what to do with mounting rice stocks in rice mills across the state in the wake of Centre stopping rice procurement from the state from …

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2 years, 8 months ago

TS farmers lose out on MSP, seek relief

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Farmers, who opted out of paddy cultivation following Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao’s statements against sowing paddy in the rabi season, feel betrayed by the state government’s decision to purchase paddy at a minimum support price. After the Chief Minister’s appeal, the paddy cultivation in the rabi dropped to 35 lakh acres from 52 lakh acres in 2021 in …

Farmers Paddy State Paddy Cultivation Crops Msp Acres

2 years, 8 months ago

Telangana Cabinet To Buy Paddy From Farmers At MSP After Centre's Refusal

ABP News

New Delhi: With the Centre refusing to buy paddy from Telangana farmers during the current Rabi season, the state government opt to purchase it on Tuesday, news agency IANS reported. After the Modi Govt failed the Telangana paddy farmers, Hon’ble CM KCR Garu has announced that the state Govt will buy entire paddy at MSP. He guaranteed farmers that the …

Delhi Farmers Rice Paddy State Crore Season

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Rabi sowing on, Punjab still faces DAP shortage of 1.28 lakh tonnes

Record Foodgrain Production Despite Fertiliser Shortage: Centre

Rythu Bharosa of ₹7,500 Announced for Rabi Season: Centre to Provide Relief to 22 Lakh Farmers

DAP ‘shortage’ has Punjab farmers worried ahead of rabi season

Full Water Supply for Kharif, Rabi: Ponguleti

Telangana procured 48 lakh MT paddy in this Rabi season

Hyderabad: Less Paddy Procured as Market Price Was Higher

Unending woes of Telangana’s farmers

Registration for rabi paddy purchase in Odisha till March 27

Union Cabinet approves subsidy on P and K fertilisers for Rabi crop season

Paddy procurement of 64.5L tonnes in 2022-23 rabi second highest

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

10,727 tonnes of wheat procured; ban on exports continues

Cabinet meet on March 9 to review salaries, pension

Paddy cultivation in rabi season exceeds estimates in Telangana

India's wheat output may set new record of over 112 lakh tonnes in 2022-23: govt. officials

21 lakh Telangana farmers receive Rs 607 cr Rythu Bandhu

In Telangana, Rythu Bandhu, Dalit Bandhu take a backseat due to fund crunch

State at less than 2% of paddy procurement target

Centre\'s relief to TS Govt: Extends deadline for kharif rice procurement

Paddy growers in Nellore upbeat as market remains bullish

Over 50 lakh tonne paddy piled up in mills as FCI stop purchase

TS farmers lose out on MSP, seek relief

Telangana Cabinet To Buy Paddy From Farmers At MSP After Centre's Refusal