Worried Telangana farmers sell paddy in Karnataka below MSP, incur losses

Even as the turf war between TRS and BJP over paddy procurement continues with BJP chief Bandi Sanjay’s tour of districts to inspect paddy procurement sparking off fresh tensions, farmers in the border areas of Gadwal and Kothakota in the erstwhile Mahbubnagar district, as well as some villages of Nalgonda district, have started resorting to distress sale of paddy and rice in neighbouring state of Karnataka, mainly Raichur.