"minimum-support-price"

The decisive role played by private traders, who have been reaching out to farmers with a liberal approach regarding moisture content, has impacted the civil supplies corporation's MSP operations

Says the Chief Minister has no time or interest to address farmers' issues in the State

Since the primary agriculture cooperative society (PACS) at Rampur in Nanganur of Siddipet district did not start procurement of the paddy even after opening the centre 10 days ago, farmers of the village organised a protest on Saturday

Despite the CCI announcing a 7% hike in the MSP this year, with rates set as Rs 7,121 per quintal for medium staple cotton and Rs 7,521 per quintal for long staple cotton, farmers are facing major challenges in marketing their produce

KTR found fault with the BJP offering a minimum support price (MSP) of Rs 8,800 per quintal of cotton in Gujarat, significantly higher than the Rs.7500 being offered to farmers of Adilabad

"Farmers are being deceived in every way," he said, expressing anger over the government’s failure to commence crop procurement and provide MSP as promised during elections.

The BRS leader sought to know from the Centre as to why the MSP for cotton in Gujarat is different from the rest of the country

The Telangana Civil Supplies Corporation is currently gearing up with the necessary infrastructure to commence full-fledged procurement from the third week of October

The incentive is part of the government’s strategy to reduce dependency on fine rice procurement from other states. However, the current market dynamics pose significant challenges to the implementation of the scheme

The procurement was hit by untimely rains last year too. But summer showers were experienced this time in long spells and almost throughout May.

Bhatti Vikramarka assured that even drenched and germinated paddy would also be purchased by the State government at the Minimum Support Price.

Despite advance plans to procure as much rain soaked paddy as possible to meet the demand from the parboiled rice mills, no significant progress could be made in this direction.

"With the special measures initiated to give farmers timely updates on the rain forecast, we could minimise to a maximum extent exposure of paddy to untimely rains," he said.

During his Praja Galam at Pathapatnam in Srikakulam district on Tuesday, Naidu pledged to finalize the pending tasks of the Polavaram project with collaboration from the Centre.

The manifestos of both Congress and BJP lack a broader vision for the future of agriculture

Addressing a news conference, he said the Civil Supplies Corporation would ensure its competitive presence in every market where the need for regulating private operations was felt.

BRS MLA Palla Rajeshwar Reddy said the delay in paddy procurement by the State govt was forcing farmers to sell their produce to private traders in open market for just Rs 1,500-1,700 per quintal

BRS sought a compensation of Rs 25,000 per acre towards crop loss, Rs 500 per quintal bonus of paddy in addition to Minimum Support Price, disbursement of Rythu Bharosa investment support and also crop loan waiver upto Rs 2 lakh.

According to him, the government had fixed the Minimum Support Price(MSP) for paddy 'A' grade Rs. 2203 per quintal and Rs. 2183 per quintal for normal quality.

Implementing the Swaminathan Committee formula will significantly raise MSP, and, in turn, farmers’ profitability