HYDERABAD: Forward of paddy procurement via state executive businesses, inter-state borders were placed on alert to stop access of paddy from neighbouring states. The state executive has made up our minds to arrange 51 check-posts at the state borders with Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Chhattisgarh.

After a sour disagreement with the Union executive, Leader Minister Okay. Chandrashekar Rao has made up our minds to arrange paddy procurement centres (PPCs), which can acquire the produce from farmers at Rs 1,960 in line with quintal.

 

There may be scope for the coming of paddy from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. There’s a massive call for for rice in Maharashtra and paddy from there is not going to succeed in Telangana.

Talking to Deccan Chronicle, Nizamabad district collector C. Narayana Reddy mentioned that they’re going to arrange check-posts at Pothangal and Kandakurthi at the Maharashtra border.

“We will be able to building up surveillance on conceivable paddy procurement within the borders with Maharashtra so as to steer clear of unlawful transportation”, he mentioned. There is not any check-post at Salura at the Nizamabad-Nanded freeway.

 

In the meantime, some farmers have already offered paddy to middlemen as they’re not able to inventory paddy after harvesting. There is not any godown facility in villages and no house for farmers of their homes. After the federal government’s announcement on paddy procurement, farmers rushed to reap the produce.

Okay. Kishan, a harvester driving force mentioned that he’s not able to satisfy the call for of farmers. To cast off the produce on the earliest, farmers are pressuring us to carry harvesters to the fields right away, he mentioned.

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