About 100% payments made to 6.11 lakh farmers for paddy in Telangana.

The Telangana government has made 100 percent payments to the farmers for the purchased paddy for this year’s Rabi season. The total value of the paddy is Rs 5,601.97 crore. Civil Supplies Corporation released the funds to all the districts. With this cent percent payment is completed. All the payments were made directly to the farmers accounts online. In this Rabi season 35.25 lakh metric tons of paddy was purchased from 6.11 lakh farmers through 3,313 purchase centres. Minimum Support Price of Rs 1,590 per quintal has been paid to farmers for Grade A paddy, adding without any involvement of middlemen all the payments were made to farmers (into their bank accounts) directly online at MSP. Sufficient funds are available with Civil Supplies Corporation. From 2016-17 Kharif season, paddy purchase is done through online by Online Procurement Management System (OPMS) and payments were made directly to farmers accounts online to avoid involvement of middlemen.