Telangana, AP form bulk of country’s paddy procurement
Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have dominated paddy procurement in the region this period. The two States procured seventy five lakh tonnes of paddy as on May possibly 22, when the total paddy procurement in the region is eighty three lakh tonnes.
Telangana, which clocked a document output of a single crore tonnes of paddy, has procured fifty two.33 lakh tonnes as towards the qualified ninety one lakh tonnes.
Quoting Foodstuff Corporation of India (FCI) Handling Director DV Prasad, a senior official of the Civil Materials Office of Telangana has mentioned the State has emerged the leader in paddy procurement. With lockdown disrupting the source chains and marketyards closed, the Telangana govt had decided to procure all of the paddy generated in the State at a price tag of about ₹25,000 crore.
Andhra Pradesh contributed 23 lakh tonnes.
The FCI’s Telangana device released two.87 lakh tonnes allotted by the Centre to the State, benefiting about 1.ninety one crore people. It also released 19,162 tonnes of rice from the Central pool to the State below the Aatma Nirbhar Bharat. The rice was meant for the migrant employees stranded in the State.
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May possibly 27, 2020
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