T. Harish Rao. | Photo Credit: File Photo HYDERABAD Former minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader T. Harish Rao has alleged that the Congress government in the State is deceiving paddy farmers by delaying payment of ₹432 crore bonus for 8.64 lakh tonnes of fine varieties procured about 50 days ago. In a letter … Read more
Representational image only. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Incessant rains caused untold miseries for paddy farmers with the lack of storage facilities for the crops in Vizianagaram district. Thousands of farmers are in distress with the financial loss owing to the damage to the standing crop with the change in its colour. The district … Read more
T. Harish Rao. File | Photo Credit: MOHD ARIF HYDERABAD The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has ridiculed the claims of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy that it is the credit of the Congress Government to achieve the record production of paddy this Kharif season without completing any pending or new irrigation project since December last … Read more
Water is stagnating in the Big Temple complex in Thanjavur after a spell of rain on Monday (November 18, 2024). | Photo Credit: R. Vengadesh Several parts of the Cauvery delta districts continued to receive moderate to heavy rainfall on Monday (November 18, 2024), in what is seen to be largely beneficial northeast monsoon season … Read more
Kisan Congress Anvesh Reddy wants the government to do justice to farmers who cultivate the normal variety of rice. File | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL Chairman of the Kisan Congress Anvesh Reddy has criticised the opposition parties for their remarks on the government’s decision to offer ₹500 bonus per quintal only for the fine variety … Read more
Kolkata: The harsh summer and heatwave conditions have come as a blessing to the country’s rabi paddy crop, which is being harvested now. Crop quality has improved as the moisture content has gone down naturally, and traders can store the grains longer.As a result, the price of rabi rice, which started to arrive in the … Read more
Irrigation, Food, and Civil Supplies Minister, N Uttam Kumar Reddy inspecting a fair price shop in Huzurnagar in Suryapet district on December 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Irrigation, Food, and Civil Supplies Minister, N Uttam Kumar Reddy criticised the ‘distorted’ policy of the earlier BRS government, which entrusted paddy stocks worth ₹22,000 crore to … Read more
The Kerala High Court building in Ernakulam (file) | Photo Credit: H. VIBHU The Kerala High Court has observed that the credit rating of farmers who effectively sell their paddy to the government under the Paddy Procurement Scheme (PRS) can never be affected as the court has already held that they cannot not be construed to be … Read more
Congress leader V.M. Sudheeran on Wednesday blamed the Kerala government for the death of a paddy farmer at Ambalappuzha earlier this week. K.R. Rajappan, 88, who was reportedly in distress over the inordinate delay in getting payment for the paddy procured from him during the ‘puncha’ (first) crop season, ended his life on Sunday. Inaugurating … Read more
Farmers in India have sown kharif crops across 979.88 lakh hectares so far this year, as against 972.58 lakh hectares in the same period of last year, according to the latest data from the Agriculture Ministry. On a yearly basis, the sowing is around 1 per cent higher. Commodity-wise, paddy sowing is at 328.22 lakh … Read more