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Civil Supplies Minister Nadendla Manohar said that the section has truthful acold procured 8.22 lakh Metric Tonnes (MT) of paddy and credited ₹1,713 crore into the slope accounts of farmers, ensuring that farmers person received the Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for their produce.
The YSRCP authorities had procured 3,33,155 MT successful 2022-23 fiscal year, for which a sum of astir ₹680 crore was paid to the farmers, helium noted.
Addressing the media present connected Thursday, Mr. Manohar said paddy was being purchased astatine the workplace gates and wealth was being deposited to the farmers’ accounts wrong 4 to six hours.
He said that the erstwhile authorities had near pending dues of ₹1,674 crore to farmers, which the NDA authorities has cleared contempt fiscal constraints. This season, paddy procurement successful Krishna territory unsocial reached a grounds 1.07 lakh MT and much than 1 lakh MT was purchased from the Godavari districts.
Only 394 and 455 trucks were registered for the proscription of the grains successful 2022-23 and 2023-24 respectively. Under the conjugation government, 2,715 trucks person been registered with the Transport Department.
Transport arrears of ₹9 crore for the kharif and rabi seasons successful Krishna, West Godavari, and Eluru districts person been cleared connected Thursday.
Mr. Manohar said 7.53 crore gunny bags were initially arranged astatine the Farmer Service Centers (RBKs) and an further 1 lakh bags were made disposable pursuing instructions of the Chief Minister. Efforts were connected to procure 51 lakh MT of paddy arsenic per the Central authorities norms.
The authorities was offering a enactment terms of ₹1,792 per 75 kg container and it was geared up to bargain the full output based connected e-Crop bookings and gave a precedence to purchasing good prime atom for the mid-day repast scheme, helium added.
