Sudden rains soak cotton, maize in Warangal’s Enumamula market
Unseasonal rainfall in Warangal and Khammam districts has left cotton and maize crops soaked, compounding the distress of farmers already reeling from recent cyclonic rains. At Enumamula market, traders and CCI refused to buy wet produce, prompting calls for official intervention.
Warangal/Khammam: Sudden rainfall in Warangal on Tuesday soaked cotton and maize at Enumamula agriculture market leaving the farmers, who were already troubled by recent cyclonic rains, distressed.
Farmers complained that the CCI and traders refused to make purchases even after produce was weighed and was ready for transportation as it was soaked by rains. They demanded the officials to intervene to see that the cotton purchases continue normally without any conditions.
Farmers lamented that the entire crop was soaked without even having time to move it under the sheds as the rain came suddenly. Warangal and Gorrekunta recorded a moderate rainfall of 36.5 mm and 25 mm respectively while a few mandals received light rain.
Warangal Mayor Gundu Sudharani and Municipal Commissioner Chahat Bajpai inspected low lying areas in Bank Colony, Shanti Nagar, Pothana Nagar which were inundated with rainwater. They instructed the municipal staff to clear the nalas.
In Khammam, Singareni mandal recorded a heavy rainfall of 71 mm, Konijerla 48.3 mm while a few other mandals received light rain. As a result of the rainfall cotton and other farm produce kept for drying was soaked.
