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Telangana has achieved a caller milestone successful paddy procurement, with 8.54 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) purchased truthful acold during the Kharif 2025–26 season, treble the 3.94 LMT recorded astatine the aforesaid clip past year, according to Civil Supplies Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy.
Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy, who on with Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao, reviewed the advancement with territory collectors, said Telangana had acceptable an unprecedented grounds successful some paddy accumulation and procurement.
“For the archetypal clip successful India, a State authorities has decided to acquisition 80 lakh tonnes of paddy successful a azygous Kharif season,” helium said.
He informed that 3.95 LMT of good assortment (sannalu) and 4.59 LMT of communal assortment had been procured truthful far. The fig of farmers selling to authorities centres has astir doubled from 55,493 past twelvemonth to 1,21,960 this year.
The full MSP worth of paddy procured stands astatine ₹2,041.44 crore, compared with ₹915.05 crore a twelvemonth ago. Of this, ₹832.9 crore has already been paid to farmers, portion the remaining ₹1,208.54 crore volition beryllium cleared done the Online Procurement Management System (OPMS) wrong 48 hours of registration.
The bonus worth for good paddy varieties roseate sharply from ₹43.02 crore past twelvemonth to ₹197.73 crore this year, of which ₹35.72 crore has been disbursed, helium said.
The Minister directed each Collectors to stay successful precocious alert mode to grip immoderate adverse upwind information and instrumentality preventive steps to support each crops, paddy, maize and fabric from damage.
Parallel to the paddy review, Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao held a elaborate treatment with District Collectors connected the procurement of cotton, maize and soybean, calling November the astir important period for harvest collection.
Collectors reported that maize farmers were satisfied with the government’s determination to summation the acquisition bounds from 18.5 quintals per acre to 25 quintals, helping them retrieve from weather-related losses.
On cotton, respective Collectors highlighted the difficulties caused by the Cotton Corporation of India’s (CCI) caller L1 and L2 acquisition restrictions, which bounds procurement to 7 quintals per acre. Responding to this, the Minister said the Telangana authorities would property the Centre to rise the bounds to 12 quintals per acre to guarantee just purchases astatine the Minimum Support Price (MSP).
Mr. Nageswara Rao said cyclone Montha had caused harvest losses successful astir 1.10 lakh acres, including paddy, maize and cotton.
