Hyderabad, March 2 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLA T Harish Rao on Sunday, March 2, criticized the Telangana government for failing to establish procurement centers for harvested crops.

In a letter to chief minister A Revanth Reddy, Harish Rao stated during the BRS rule, farmers were taught methods to increase oil seed production. "Currently, the sunflower crop is ready for harvest but no purchase centers have been set up in the state to sell its seeds," he said.

The former Telangana finance minister alleged that farmers are forced to sell their produce to middlemen at Rs 5,500 -Rs 6000 per quintal. "The BRS government procured the sunflower seeds through the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) at...