The Centre has drastically reduced paddy procurement from Telangana with the procurement coming down to 28.96 lakh metric tonnes in Rabi 2021-22 as against 61.87 lakh metric tonnes in 2020-21.
The figures were revealed by Union Minister of State for Food and Public Distribution Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti in a reply to a question raised by Nalgonda MP N. Uttam Kumar Reddy in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Mr. Reddy blamed both the BJP and the TRS governments for the poor procurement and their paddy politics at the cost of farmers. “They have jointly destroyed Telangana’s paddy farmers by reducing procurement by over 50%. The BJP government tried to throttle the livelihood of lakhs of paddy farmers of Telangana and the TRS remained a mute spectator in this destruction,” he alleged.