Jul 19, 2021, 10:50 IST Amaravati: Minister for Civil Supplies Kodali Venkateswararao (Nani) on Sunday flayed TDP Chief Chandrababu Naidu for making baseless allegations on clearing bills towards crop procurement and clarified that the State government shall clear all the pending arrears towards paddy procurement by the end of July. Speaking to the media, the Minister stated that farmers were ignored during the reign of Chandrababu, where an average of 55 lakh metric tonnes of paddy was purchased during his five year rule, the current government had procured an average of 83 lakh metric tonnes per annum. Drawing comparison with the previous government, he said that Chandrababu paid an average of only Rs 8,500 crore a year to farmers for crop procurement, but the YSRC government had paid a total of Rs 32,000 crore, at a rate of Rs 16,000 crore annually which is almost double.