Rabi 2024-25 paddy procurement crosses 72 lakh tonnes, 13 lakh tonnes more than 2022-23: Telangana Irrigation Minister

Record paddy procurement in 2024-25 Rabi season, surpassing previous years, with increased purchase centres and payments to farmers.

HYDERABAD

The procurement of paddy for the 2024-25 Rabi season has crossed 72.42 lakh tonnes from 12.33 lakh farmers as on June 8 and it is 13 lakh tonnes higher compared to the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi’s (BRS) last season in power, Minister for Civil Supplies and Irrigation N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has said.

At a review meeting held in Hyderabad on Monday (June 9, 2025), he said that the higher procurement was possible with the opening of 1,344 more purchase centres compared to the BRS’ last year in office. Against 7,034 centres opened in the 2022-23 Rabi season, the Congress government had opened 8,378 centres in the recent (2024-25) Rabi season.

The record paddy production in the recent Rabi season was a milestone in the State’s history as it was achieved despite the Kaleshwaram project, claimed as one of its major achievements by the BRS, turning useless, Mr. Reddy said. He said that the value of paddy procured for the 2024-25 Rabi season was ₹16,760 crore. Of it, ₹15,121 crore was already paid to farmers.

Statute of paddy procurement as on June 8 in last four Rabi seasons