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Union Minister for Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy said that the Central Government has approved the procurement of 1,25,855 metric tonnes of pulses and oilseeds produced by Telangana farmers by paying much than ₹894 crore nether the Minimum Support Price (MSP).
Expressing happiness that a determination benefiting Telangana farmers has been taken, Mr. Kishan Reddy conveyed his gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan successful a property merchandise connected Thursday.
For the 2026 harvest season, the Centre volition procure 29,860 metric tonnes of bengal gram (chana), 37,020 metric tonnes of greenish gram (moong), 55,285 metric tonnes of groundnut, and 3,690 metric tonnes of sunflower effect astatine MSP, helium said.
Mr. Kishan Reddy added that specified affirmative measures by the Modi authorities are helping farmers unafraid just income portion besides encouraging the cultivation of commercialized crops. He noted that these initiatives would further enactment the improvement of the agriculture assemblage and fortify the agrarian economy.
He said the Central Government has, for the past 12 years, been moving to marque agriculture profitable. Initiatives specified arsenic ungraded testing, subsidised seeds, subsidised fertilizers, and subsidised workplace instrumentality person provided aggregate benefits to farmers.
In summation to reducing cultivation costs, the authorities has ensured MSP that is astatine slightest 50% to 100% higher than the outgo of production, importantly enhancing farmers’ incomes, helium said, and claimed that since 2014, the Centre has procured astir ₹2 lakh crore worthy of paddy and ₹70,000 crore worthy of fabric from Telangana farmers astatine MSP.
