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The State Government has decided to commencement crediting the Vaanakalam (Kharif) instalment of Rythu Bharosa from June 30.
Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy volition formally motorboat the crediting process astatine a nationalist gathering successful Madhira of Khammam territory connected June 30. The assured magnitude of ₹6,000 per acre volition beryllium credited into the accounts of farmers implicit the adjacent fewer days.
The State Council of Ministers took a determination connected the day for crediting the magnitude during its informal gathering present connected Thursday. Government announced that the ₹500 a quintal bonus would beryllium fixed for 7 varieties of good atom — BPT 5204, RNR 15048, HMT, Jai Sriram, KNM 1638, WGL 44, KNM 7715 — and requested farmers to opt for these varieties arsenic they bid bully request successful the nationalist and planetary markets.
Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao reminded the apt interaction of El Nino connected rainfall this twelvemonth and advised farmers to prime varieties of crops aft checking the rainfall. Farmers were advised to instrumentality up sowing aft ensuring that determination was rainfall of astatine slightest 7 mm doubly lest they would beryllium forced to instrumentality up sowing again.
Civil Supplies Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said that the State had procured 80 lakh metric tonnes of paddy during Rabi, which was a grounds successful the country. The Centre, however, did not procure the anticipated percent of the produce, which could origin hardships to the State Government. The Centre should acquisition the full banal produced successful Telangana and the State would abide by the Central Government’s guidelines.
The Cabinet resolved to forthwith travel the guidelines to beryllium issued by the Centre connected the assortment of crops and MSP fixed for it. At the aforesaid time, the Government has decided to equine unit connected the Centre to acquisition the full farmers’ nutrient done its agencies specified arsenic FCI, CCI and Nafed.
A squad of Ministers would sojourn the nationalist superior and conscionable the Union Ministers acrophobic to person them astir the request to acquisition the full farmers’ produce. The Government had requested the BJP MPs including Union Ministers from Telangana to widen their practice successful enuring that the Centre purchases the full produce.
“The State is lone a facilitator. It is for the Centre to acquisition the full commodity from farmers, but the agencies appointed by the Centre are not doing so,” Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy said. The State would not hesitate to motorboat an agitation, if request be, to person the Centre for purchasing the farmers’ nutrient from Telangana.
The State had requested the Centre to merchandise the quantum of urea and fertilizer assured to Telangana astatine the earliest and guarantee that maximum quantity of the urea produced from Ramagundam portion was allotted. Though the Centre had assured 2 lakh metric tonnes of urea oregon fertilizers each period to Telangana, the State did not person adjacent 1 lakh metric tonne a month.
“Allotment of fertilizer produced successful Ramagundam to Telangana volition trim proscription outgo and debar scope for shortages,” Mr. Nageswara Rao said.
Replying to queries, Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy dismissed BRS’ disapproval connected the government’s ‘failure’ to acquisition crops produced by farmers. “Congress Government had spent adjacent to ₹1 lakh crore successful the past 2 and a fractional years for procurement of paddy and different crops. This is against the ₹1.2 lakh crore spent during the full 10 twelvemonth regularisation of the BRS,” helium said.
