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Civil Supplies Minister Nadendla Manohar connected Tuesday said Andhra Pradesh had recorded a important emergence successful paddy procurement during the ongoing rabi season, with procurement expanding by 18% compared to the corresponding play past year.
Addressing a property league here, the Minister said the authorities had procured 19.70 lakh metric tonnes of paddy truthful acold against the people of 27 lakh metric tonnes. He said ₹4,600 crore had been credited straight into the slope accounts of 1.9 lakh farmers wrong 24 hours of procurement.
Mr. Manohar said the Centre’s support for the procurement of boiled atom had enabled the State to procure Bondalu assortment paddy, benefiting thousands of farmers. At the aforesaid time, helium expressed interest implicit the cultivation of non-priority paddy varieties specified arsenic 1010 and PR-126, peculiarly successful NTR district, stating that these varieties were resulting successful a precocious percent of breached rice, ranging betwixt 45% and 50%.
The Minister said the authorities would proceed procuring these varieties during the existent play to debar hardship to farmers. However, helium said consciousness would beryllium created among farmers to discourage the cultivation of non-priority varieties successful the coming seasons.
On logistics, Mr. Manohar said 18,000 transport vehicles progressive successful procurement operations had been integrated with GPS tracking systems. He added that the State had ensured the availability of 8.93 crore gunny bags and was besides exploring alternate packaging solutions. Discussions with the Centre connected the contented would beryllium held soon successful New Delhi.
The Minister further said strict enactment was being initiated against erring LPG distributors and assured that capable substance stocks, capable for 21 days, were disposable crossed the State.
