Ending uncertainty, Telangana says it will procure rabi paddy

Ending months of uncertainty and speculation, the Telangana Government has reported it will procure paddy and guarantee farmers get least aid price (MSP) for paddy for the rabi create.

“We are arranging to introduce a controlled course of action wherein the farmers will be presented coupon codes. They can go to the marketplaces and promote their create at the FCI procurement counters,” Main Minister K Chandrashekar Rao reported.

Addressing the dialogue on movement of thanks on the Governor’s speech on Wednesday, he reported the Government would open procurement centres in the regions wherever Covid situations are significant and in the hinterlands.

Original estimates place the paddy output in the State in the rabi year at a person crore tonnes, with the farmers growing the crop on a history place of fifty two lakh acres.

“You require not get worried about providing of the create. I wish the circumstance will improve from subsequent yr and the farmers will be in a position to promote their create at the marketyards,” he reported.

Stating that he cannot speak considerably on an problem at it is sub-judice, he reported there was in general uncertainty about the new (agri) regulations. “We really don’t which way it will go. The Supreme Court docket has stayed the regulations,” he reported.

“When Parliament will make a regulation, the States are obliged to stick to it,” he reported, arguing that there was no way the State can oppose the Central agri regulations.

He alleged the successive governments at the Centre experienced encroached on State’s subjects in the Concurrent Listing.

He, nevertheless, reported that the State would carry on to run the advertising committees even if the Central regulations referred to as for elimination of these committees.

He reported the State procured all of the create from the kharif at the farm gate to help farmers through the Covid pandemic.