Hyderabad, May 18 -- Telangana Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar on Monday, May 18, said that nearly 50 per cent of paddy has been procured in Karimnagar with Rs 237 crore being credited to farmers so far.

In a review meeting with local MLAs Medipalli Satyam and Kavvampalli Satyanarayana, District Collector Chitra Mishra and representatives of the Rice Millers Transport Association at the Karimnagar Collectorate, Ponnam said that the state aims to collect approximately 3 lakh metric tons of paddy in Karimnagar this season.

"In this, 1.58 lakh metric tons of paddy have been procured so far. The remaining 1.5 lakh metric tons should be procured on a war footing," he said.

Ponnam Prabhakar said that 63 per cent of the payments related t...