The rice is being sold at ₹52 per kg for BPT super fine and ₹50 per kg for BPT raw through 130 Rythu Bazaars and 500 rice mills, with purchases capped at 10 kg per consumer after Aadhaar verification
M.V.S. Nagi Reddy criticised the government for advising farmers in the Krishna delta against cultivating paddy during the kharif season
The decision comes as nearly 2,000 farmers, who breached police barricades to reach the State capital, set up camp near Chief Minister Mohan Yadav’s residence
The Minister accuses YSR Congress Party president Jagan Mohan Reddy of exploiting the problems of tobacco and aquaculture farmers for political mileage