The erstwhile Karimnagar district — comprising Karimnagar, Jagtial, Peddapalli and Rajanna-Sircilla districts — has once emerged as the rice bowl of Telangana State with a record paddy production of over 11 lakh tonnes during this rabi season.
Disclosing this to newsmen here on Tuesday, Minister for Finance and Civil Supplies Eatala Rajender said that Telangana was expecting paddy production of 60 lakh tonnes.
Out of that, 11 lakh tonnes of paddy would be from the erstwhile Karimnagar district only, he maintained.
The Minister said that the Civil Supplies Department was taking all measures to ensure that about 40 lakh tonnes of paddy was procured by them and the remaining by rice millers, traders and seed companies etc.
Informing that the civil supplies authorities and other departments were entrusted to open as many paddy procurement centres as possible in various parts of the district, he said that the government was committed for the procurement of paddy by providing minimum support price of ₹ 1,510 per quintal for A grade variety and ₹ 1,470 per quintal for B grade variety of paddy.
He also asked the seed companies to provide MSP to the farmers while procuring the seed variety of paddy.
With regard to the mobilisation of people for the TRS formation day celebrations public meeting in Warangal town on April 27, the Civil Supplies Minister said that erstwhile Karimnagar district would be in forefront in the mobilisation of the public in the state. He said that they would mobilise more than two lakh people, including 1.3 lakh from bifurcated Karimnagar district, 50,000 from Jagtial and 40,000 each from Peddapalli and Rajanna-Sircilla district.
Zilla Parishad chairperson Tula Uma, Karimnagar legislator G Kamalakar, Irrigation Development Corporation chairman Eda Shankar Reddy and others were also present.
