Government bought paddy worth Rs 425 crore in kharif season

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Press Trust of India Vijayawada
Last Updated : Apr 09 2015 | 6:28 PM IST
Minister for Water Resources Devineni Umamaheshwara Rao said here today that government agencies had purchased Rs 425 crores worth of paddy from farmers in Krishna district during the kharif season.
Opening a paddy procurement centre at Gollapudi village in Krishna district to purchase rabi season paddy from farmers, the said that during the kharif season, government agencies purchased 3,31,135 metric tonne of paddy from 15,393 farmers in the district.
He also said that during this rabi season which has just commenced, government agencies have a target to purchase 3.89 lakh tonne of paddy from farmers.
He appealed to farmers not to indulge in distress sales and also guaranteed that government agencies would purchase the entire production of the rabi season at a Minimum Support Price of Rs 1,400 a quintal.
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First Published: Apr 09 2015 | 6:28 PM IST

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