Telangana procured 60 LMT paddy so far, which is 60% of India’s total procurement: Uttam

Paddy procurement has crossed 60 Lakh Metric Tonnes (LMT) till day successful Telangana compared to astir 24 LMT successful Andhra Pradesh, 11 to 12 LMT successful Tamil Nadu, 3 LMT successful Maharashtra, and astir 2 LMT successful Kerala.

“Today, astir 60% of each paddy procured successful India during the ongoing Yasangi play has travel from Telangana alone. By the clip procurement operations conclude, Telangana is expected to relationship for astir 75% of the country’s full Yasangi paddy procurement,” said the Civil Supplies Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy.

“Yet the BJP and BRS are hell-bent connected spreading mendacious accusation misleading the people,” the Minister said addressing a property league on with Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao, Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar and Minister for Minority Welfare, Mohammed Azharuddin, held astatine the State Secretariat successful Hyderabad connected Friday (May 29, 2026).

Telangana procured 60 LMT paddy, Centre agrees to procure up to 52 LMT

The Civil Supplies Minister said Telangana was fig 1 State successful supplying atom to the Food Corporation of India (FCI) nether the Central Pool mechanism. The Centre has agreed to procure lone up to 52 LMT from Telangana though the State had already crossed the 60 LMT mark.

“Every twelvemonth and each harvest season, atom accumulation successful Telangana is growing. Yet, the quantity of atom being accepted by the Centre done FCI is being reduced. The Chief Minister and I person repeatedly raised this contented with the Union Government,” helium said.

Estimated accumulation of 141 LMT paddy connected 64.36 lakh acres

The Minister said paddy cultivation during Yasangi 2025-26 covered 64.36 lakh acres, resulting successful an estimated accumulation of 141 lakh metric tonnes. To guarantee creaseless procurement, the State Government established 8,575 procurement centres, deployed astir 13,000 transport vehicles, and mobilised implicit 2 lakh unit for procurement, proscription and logistics operations.

Minimum Support Price (MSP) payments amounting to ₹11,050 crore person already been credited straight into farmers’ slope accounts. The Minister said that during the existent 2025-26 season, some Kharif and Yasangi harvest cycles, husbandman payments and procurement costs progressive implicit ₹39,300 crore.

10,214 MT rain-soaked paddy transported to boiled atom mills

Referring to caller unseasonal rains, Mr. Reddy said the authorities had acted swiftly to support farmers from losses. Special arrangements enabled the proscription of 10,214 metric tonnes of rain-soaked paddy to boiled atom mills, ensuring that affected farmers received MSP payments without hardship.

Ministers Tummala Nageswara Rao and Ponnam Prabhakar powerfully criticised BJP and BRS leaders for what helium described arsenic their “politically motivated campaign.” The BJP should admit the standard of procurement, transportation, payments and logistical mobilisation undertaken by Telangana arsenic it was unprecedented. No State authorities successful autarkic India has carried retired procurement operations of this magnitude.

“If BJP leaders are genuinely acrophobic astir farmers, they should prevail upon the Union Government to heighten Telangana’s procurement allocation and FCI acceptance targets alternatively of indulging successful governmental criticism,” Mr. Rao said.