Rain fear drives farmers to undersell fine variety paddy to millers

NALGONDA: Majority of the farmers in the district who have grown fine variety of paddy are underselling their produce to millers directly.

In this khariff, paddy was raised in 5.2 lakh acres. Of this, fine variety of paddy is grown in 53 per cent of the area and coarse variety in the remaining 47 percent area.

The civil supplies department is expecting 4,70,000 metric tons of coarse rice paddy and 2,80,000 metric tonnes of fine rice paddy at the IKP centres for procurement.