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The Telangana authorities is gearing up for procurement of foodgrain, including paddy produced during Kharif play from the farmers, aft registering a grounds accumulation of 148.03 lakh metric tonnes successful this Kharif (2025) season.
The State acceptable a grounds successful the state by registering the highest-ever accumulation successful azygous season. The authorities is apt to walk astir ₹23,000 crore for procurement of astatine slightest 80 lakh metric tonnes foodgrain from farmers, according to Irrigation and Civil Supplies Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy.
The Minister, accompanied by Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao and Chief Secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao, conducted a video league with elder officials and territory collectors connected Wednesday (October 15) to reappraisal the arrangements being made for procurement of foodgrains. The proactive polices adopted by the State authorities — headed by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy — resulted successful the State registering the highest-ever accumulation of foodgrains, helium said.
He described the workout arsenic a delicate contented and directed the territory collectors to enactment successful spot a hassle-free process truthful that farmers are not enactment to immoderate inconvenience. Telangana registered the highest-ever accumulation of 148.03 lakh metric tonnes accumulation and was heading to acceptable a grounds by ensuring acquisition of 80 lakh metric tonnes, including 40 lakh metric tonnes good and coarse varieties each.
In all, 8,342 procurement centres would beryllium acceptable up crossed the State of which 4,259 centres would beryllium operated by the superior agriculture cooperative societies, 3,517 IKP centres and 566 by different agencies. The territory collectors should accordingly absorption connected creating capable facilities astatine the procurement centres too putting successful spot mechanics to transport the foodgrain procured from farmers to retention points. “There should beryllium effectual coordination betwixt the territory collectors and Civil Supplies officials,” helium said stressing the request for putting successful spot indispensable basal amenities astatine the procurement centres.
Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy said the State authorities took the procurement process arsenic a prestige and directed the territory collectors to spot that payments were made to farmers wrong 48 hours of procurement of the commodity. The authorities was steadfast connected giving minimum enactment terms and assured bonus of ₹500 a quintal for good atom arsenic portion of procurement.
Over 1,200 procurement centres had already started functioning successful Kamareddy, Nizamabad, Medak, Siddipet and Nalgonda districts and officials acrophobic should marque arrangements to enactment successful spot indispensable instrumentality and infrastructure required for the process. He directed the officials to guarantee occurrence of the process connected the lines of erstwhile twelvemonth erstwhile effectual coordination astatine antithetic level yielded bully results. In the process, officials could walk much funds wherever needed for making indispensable arrangements and they should spot that information pertaining to procurement was entered into the records timely.
Officials should besides support successful caput the upwind forecasts and marque arrangements for indispensable instrumentality to guarantee that foodgrain was not drenched successful lawsuit of untimely rains. Steps should beryllium taken to spot that the Civil Supplies commissioner was disposable successful cases of emergency, helium said adding helium himself would beryllium disposable to resoluteness difficulties, if any, encountered successful the process.
Helpline fig 1800-425-00333/1967 was made operational for farmers to interaction officials successful lawsuit they needed immoderate assistance and the authorities had besides acceptable up peculiar teams to supervise the process till procurement was completed.
Mr. Nageswara Rao said the State authorities withstood challenges for ensuring the occurrence of the procurement process successful the past 2 years.
