Telangana Minister for Agriculture S. Niranjan Reddy has alleged that the Centre is giving step-motherly treatment to Telangana on several issues, including on procurement of paddy.
Speaking at New Delhi on Thursday after meeting Union Minister for Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal along with three other Ministers – G. Kamalakar, V. Prashanth Reddy and P. Ajay Kumar – and a few MPs of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), he explained how Mr. Goyal’s talk of procuring paddy in Telangana on the lines of Punjab is dubious.
He stated that paddy was grown only in Kharif season in Punjab and it would be processed only as raw rice, and in rabi, the northern State would produce wheat. Whereas in Telangana, major crop in both the seasons would be paddy with the kharif production useful for raw rice and rabi produce for parboiled rice due to the hot weather conditions during the season.
