# With fresh paddy arrivals at Red Hills, rice prices to stabilise soon: Tamil Nadu Food Minister

> Tamil Nadu's food minister said that arrivals of super fine paddy from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana would stabilise local rice prices. Around 170-190 trucks a day were unloading paddy at Red Hills, Chennai, and more supply from Karnataka is expected from December.

- Date: 2026-10-29 · published 2026-10-29T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region India · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/17174-with-fresh-paddy-arrivals-at-red-hills-rice-prices-to-stabilise-soon-tamil-nadu
- Commodities: [Rough Rice](https://feedsoft.ai/c/RICE.md)

## Why it matters

Rising paddy arrivals and millers' purchases ease local tightness in southern India, which may cap domestic rice prices but has little direct effect on export benchmarks.

## Read by commodity

- RICE: neutral

## Sources

- thehindu.com: https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/with-fresh-paddy-arrivals-at-red-hills-rice-prices-to-stabilise-soon-tamil-nadu-food-minister/article71637590.ece

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