Telangana procures 60 lakh tonnes of paddy

The Civil Supplies Division of Telangana has done procurement of 60 lakh tonnes, conference the focus on set by the Foods Corporation of India (FCI) for the Condition. The create, procured from more than ten lakh farmers, is valued at about ₹12,000 crore.

The Condition, nevertheless, expects arrivals of 30 lakh much more tonnes of paddy, thinking of the bumper output from the kharif crop. The Condition expects a overall output of about one.30 crore tonnes from the kharif period.

As the procurement course of action done in various parts of the Condition, the Division has shut down practically 50 percent of the six,900 procurement centres that it opened.

With the Condition completing the procurement focus on and much more arrivals expected, the Condition Government requested the Union Government to raise the cap.

The Condition Government deputed 5 ministers, led by Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy, to keep conversations with Piyush Goyal, Union Minister for Foods, Public Distribution and Foods, and encourage the Government to procure much more paddy from the Condition. The Union Government, nevertheless, has not given any assurance to the Condition Government in this regard.