Minister for Marketing and Irrigation T. Harish Rao on Sunday opened a vegetables stall at Sardar Patel Nagar near JNTU in Kukatpally, set up under the ‘Mana Kuragayala Pathakam’ introduced by the Marketing Department. Under the scheme, vegetables will be purchased directly from the farmers of Medak, Ranga Reddy and Mahabubnagar districts through 21 procurement centres set up on experimental basis. The vegetables will be purchased at the prevailing wholesale rates in Bowenpally market and the amount will be credited to the farmers’ accounts.
The vegetables procured from the farmers would be moved to centralised distribution centre set up in the Bowenpally market, where they will be sorted, graded and stored in the cold storage there, if necessary.
Then the vegetable will be supplied to the Mana Kuragayalu outlets, Rythu Bazaars other outlets set up in gated communities.
Collection (procurement) of vegetables from farmers, management of distribution centre has been handed over to one agency, Farmfix, and management of Mana Kuragayalu outlets has been given to another agency, Genera Agri Corp, both selected through a tenders process.
Trial run of 20 Mana Kuragayalu stalls in different localities in the city commenced a few days back and they were opened formally on Sunday. Minister for Transport P. Mahender Reddy, MP C. Malla Reddy and others participated.
