Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao asked farmers in Telangana not to panic since the government was ready to procure every grain of paddy produced in the State. The Chief Minister, speaking at a high level review meeting on harvesting and paddy procurement at Pragathi Bhavan here on Sunday, instructed the officials concerned to ensure that harvesting of crops and paddy procurement goes on smoothly despite the lockdown.
“Public life in the State has come to standstill due to the lockdown, but the government has decided to procure paddy from farmers so that they don’t face any difficulty or financial losses,” he said, adding that to stop crowding at markets, the government decided to procure paddy in villages for which procurement centres at the village level had been set up.