Farmers Movement Archive

Cabinet meet today, session on Oct 13-14

Hyderabad: The state cabinet will meet on Saturday to discuss and approve the bills that will be introduced in the special session to be held on October 13 and 14. The cabinet meeting, to be chaired by CM K Chandrasekhar Rao, is also expected to discuss about the regulatory farming policy to be implemented during the summer season and purchase of paddy. The CMO said special session of the legislative assembly will be held at 11.30 am on October 13, while the council will meet at 11 am on October 14 to approve amendments to the GHMC Act and other bills. KCR will also hold a review meeting with agriculture and civil supplies departments’ officials at Pragati Bhavan at 2.30 pm on Saturday. He will discuss with the officials on regulatory farm policy for the next summer (yasangi) season and purchase of agriculture produce in villages. The meeting will take a call on what crops should be cultivated in the summer and their extent. “The Centre is importing maize on a large scale and this will have an adverse impact on maize grown within the country. Against this backdrop, a decision should be taken on cultivation of maize in the state,” CMO said. “Procurement centres were set up in the villages and farm produce was purchased last summer. The coronavirus threat still exists. Hence, the rainy season agriculture produce should also be purchased in the villages by setting up the procurement centres,” the CM said and directed the officials to set up 6,000 procurement centres to ensure the farmers do not face any problems in selling their agriculture produce.

The Times of India

2020-10-10

Hyderabad