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Cultivating the farmer

He's done it. Chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao is close to completing his grand scheme of doling out an unprecedented, no-questions-asked Rs 4,000 per acre to each of Telangana's 5,733,000 farmers.

Rythu Bandhu scheme (RBS), the agricultural investment support plan rolled out on May 10

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