TS procures 92 lakh tonnes paddy in recent Rabi season
The Hindu
About 58.5% of it comes from only 10 districts
Telangana State Civil Supplies Corporation (TSCSC) has purchased about 92 lakh tonnes of paddy worth ₹17,300 crore at minimum support price from about 15 lakh farmers during the recent Rabi (Yasangi) procurement season. Chairman of the Corporation M. Srinivas Reddy stated here on Tuesday that the increase in paddy procurement in the recent Rabi season was 594% compared to the quantity purchased during the 2014-15 Rabi season. Since formation of the State in 2014, the State government had procured 4.84 crore tonnes of paddy worth ₹84,000 crore from farmers. Since 2014-15 to 2019-20, ₹1,029 crore commission was paid to Indira Kranthi Patham (IKP), primary agriculture credit cooperative societies (PACS), district cooperative marketing societies (DCMS), Girijan Cooperative Corporation (GCC), Hyderabad Agricultural Cooperative Association (HACA) and other agencies for procurement of paddy from farmers on behalf of the Civil Supplies Corporation.
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