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The Andhra Pradesh Government has asked the Union Government to announce a bonus of Rs 120 a quintal for paddy farmers, keeping in view the steep increase in cost of cultivation.
In a letter here on Monday, the Chief Minister, Mr N Kiran Kumar Reddy, asked the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh to consider bonus in addition to the increase of Rs 80 in minimum support price.
Welcoming the Centre's move to allow export of 10 lakh tonnes of non-basmati rice, he said this would help ease pressure on storage capacities and get additional income to farmers. "The move would help the Food Corporation of India and rice millers to procure more paddy from farmers," he said.
Farmers in several parts of the State were forced to keep paddy stocks in the fields with FCI and millers finding no storage capacity to store the commodity. Farmers unions had been asking the Government to allow them to export non-basmati rice.
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