Hyderabad, May 29 -- Telangana ministers who held a press conference on paddy and maize procurement at Dr BR Ambedkar Telangana State Secretariat on Friday, May 29, walked out abruptly without answering questions from the media.

Civil Supplies Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy opened the briefing by dismissing reports of problems at Paddy Procurement Centres (PPC) as exaggerations by "certain social media news outlets."

Reddy claimed that Telangana had not only topped the country in paddy production in 2025-26, but was also the only state spending from its own finances - Rs 16,479 crore - over and above the procurement target set by the Centre. He said the Food Corporation of India (FCI) was sourcing 75 per cent of its total national Rabi se...