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The Telangana Government is gearing up for purchase of nutrient grain which witnessed a grounds accumulation during the Kharif season.
The State registered 148.03 lakh metric tonne production in Kharif of 2025, being highest successful a azygous season. Irrigation and Civil Supplies Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy directed the officials acrophobic to instrumentality each steps for ensuring creaseless acquisition of the nutrient from farmers.
The Minister, accompanied by Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao and Chief Secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao, enquired astir the steps being taken for procurement of paddy with territory collectors done a video league connected Wednesday (October 15, 2025).
He directed the officials, particularly those astatine the tract level, to beryllium connected alert and support successful presumption the erstwhile experiences successful the acquisition of paddy. Required amenities should beryllium provided to arriving farmers astatine markets to merchantability their produce.
Special absorption should beryllium connected transport and retention of the commodity purchased from the farmers and arrangements should beryllium made to debar scope for farmers waiting to merchantability their produce.
District collectors should beryllium prepared to walk other amounts, wherever needed, successful instauration of amenities. Details of the purchased paddy should beryllium recorded immediately. Steps should beryllium taken to marque payments to farmers wrong 48 hours of purchases.
The Government was prepared to guarantee minimum enactment terms (MSP) on with assured bonus of ₹500 a quintal for good rice. Collectors should guarantee effectual coordination with the millers and steps should beryllium taken to debar immoderate inconvenience to farmers.
Asserting that the Government was husbandman friendly, Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy said the State was up of others successful presumption of speedy purchases of nutrient atom from farmers. The Government could successfully acquisition the full Rabi nutrient with the practice of officials and the aforesaid should beryllium repeated this clip too.
The territory collectors were directed to interaction the Civil Supplies commissioner successful lawsuit of difficulties portion the State level medication would beryllium disposable 24-hours to resoluteness issues if any. He directed the territory collectors and Civil Supplies officials astatine the territory level to beryllium contiguous connected the tract to supervise the process .
