KAKINADA: Civil supplies minister Nadendla Manohar assured the paddy farmers that the state government is making arrangements to make payments to them within 48 hours in the coming Kharif season. He also said tarpaulins would be supplied to the farmers with a 50 percent subsidy and crop insurance would be paid by the government in time. Manohar visited the Eluru and Konaseema districts on Monday and cleared the arrears of the farmers.
Eluru district collector K. Vetri Selvi said that the previous government purchased more than 2 lakh metric tonnes of paddy from 17,496 farmers in Eluru district and had to pay Rs 200 crore of arrears and the present government cleared the arrears in two phases. Civil Supplies Corporation managing director Veera Pandiyan, Eluru MP Putta Mahesh Kumar and MLAs Kamineni Srinivas, Bolisetty Srinivas, Chintamaneni Prabhakar, Badeti Radhakrishna, Songa Roshan Kumar, P. Dharma Raju, S. Balaraju, Zilla Parishad chairman Ganta Padma Sri were present at the event.
