7 months ago
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HYDERABAD
Procurement of paddy is progressing briskly successful the State with the acquisition of implicit 51.86 lakh tonnes of atom completed till December 10.
It includes 26.37 lakh tonnes of communal varieties of paddy and different 25.49 lakh tonnes of good (sanna) varieties. The worth of paddy procured truthful acold is ₹13,661 crore.
According to officials of the Civil Supplies Department, the State authorities had planned to procure 80 lakh tonnes of paddy produced successful the Rabi play and opened 8,433 procurement centres for the purpose. The authorities has besides paid ₹314 crore to farmers arsenic bonus astatine ₹500 per quintal for raising good varieties of paddy.
