Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has taken decision in favour of farming community regarding paddy procurement. He announced that the government would set up 6,408 procurement centres in villages across the State to purchase paddy from farmers. In a high level review meeting at Pragathi Bhavan on Agriculture, Marketing and Civil Supplies departments, he said it was decided to procure paddy from villages, as was done last year, in view of the increasing cases of Covid-19.
For your information let us share that CM K Chandrashekhar Rao instructed Principal Secretary (Finance) Ramakrishna Rao to make all arrangements to provide Rs 20,000 crore bank guarantee by Tuesday evening. He also instructed Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar to conduct an emergency video-conference with all the District Collectors for the setting up of procurement centres in the districts.
However, here it is to be noted that the Chief Minister directed Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy to be stationed in Hyderabad and monitor the setting up of the procurement centres as well as the procurement process. The Minister and Chief Secretary were also asked to take all precautions to ensure that farmers are not put to any difficulty during the procurement procesunity.
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