Telangana, AP form bulk of country’s paddy procurement
Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have dominated paddy procurement in the region this year. The two States procured seventy five lakh tonnes of paddy as on Might 22, although the overall paddy procurement in the region is eighty three lakh tonnes.
Telangana, which clocked a history creation of a single crore tonnes of paddy, has procured fifty two.33 lakh tonnes as against the targeted ninety one lakh tonnes.
Quoting Meals Company of India (FCI) Handling Director DV Prasad, a senior official of the Civil Provides Section of Telangana has explained the Condition has emerged the chief in paddy procurement. With lockdown disrupting the provide chains and marketyards shut, the Telangana governing administration experienced decided to procure all of the paddy made in the Condition at a price tag of about ₹25,000 crore.
Andhra Pradesh contributed 23 lakh tonnes.
The FCI’s Telangana unit released 2.87 lakh tonnes allotted by the Centre to the Condition, benefiting about one.ninety one crore persons. It also released 19,162 tonnes of rice from the Central pool to the Condition below the Aatma Nirbhar Bharat. The rice was intended for the migrant personnel stranded in the Condition.
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Might 27, 2020
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