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Telangana’s farmers face a worsening urea crisis, with protests erupting across districts as fertilizer shortages hit critical Kharif crops. Black marketing, supply chain delays, and plant shutdowns have left 70.6 lakh farmers struggling, raising fears of lower yields and unrest.

Farmers in the district are facing severe delays in Kharif sowing due to urea shortage. Long queues were seen at PACS centres despite government claims of adequate supply. Farmers expressed anger over the delay and demanded immediate intervention to avoid disruption of agricultural operations.

Telangana is facing a rainfall deficit in 10 districts, with paddy sowing at just 8.02% of the normal area. Though maize and cotton show better progress, the Kharif season remains uncertain with limited rainfall forecast in the coming weeks

Union Minister JP Nadda assured Chief Minister Revanth Reddy of uninterrupted fertiliser supply to Telangana during the Vanakalam season. He also raised concern over rising urea consumption and urged corrective action under the Centre's PM-PRANAM scheme to promote organic farming

With no irrigation support from KLIP over a month into the water year, farmers in Telangana are gearing up for protests. Low inflows at Yellampalli and delays in repairs at Medigadda are worsening the situation for Kharif cultivation

Urea, a nitrogen-rich fertilizer essential for paddy farming, is key to enhancing crop yields and grain quality. Farmers generally use about 100 kilograms of urea per acre during critical growth phases to optimize production. Concerns over potential shortages, particularly during the peak sowing period, are creating uncertainty among growers. 4.1-mini

Sugarcane cultivation has of late dropped to less than one lakh acres. This decline is having a direct impact on sugar industry, leading to factory closures and economic downturn in sugarcane-dependent sectors

Farmers in Stage II of the project initiate protests over uncertainty surrounding irrigation support

Rs 950 crore bonus remains unpaid, which places considerable financial burden on over four lakh farmers who sold Grade -A variety

Report on scheme yet to be received, says Agriculture Minister Thummala Nageswara Rao

The involvement of private traders is providing a much-needed alternative for farmers, ensuring they can sell their produce without significant delays.

Collector Muzammil Khan directs officials to prepare for the 2024-25 procurement season and make arrangements based on the mandal-wise arrival of the agricultural produce to the markets.

Vanakalam cultivation area at just 1/3rd of targeted 15 mn acres

The government has been flooded with complaints on non-availability of fertilisers from different districts in May and June.

The government stand on the issue of waiver of penalty is not appealable, the orders said.

The State government has set a target of 15.19 million acres for Kharif crops this year, expecting a modest increase of eight per cent in the Kharif area.

Farmers are raising paddy nurseries under assured irrigation sources and sowing rainfed crops like jowar, bajra, maize, ragi, pulses, groundnut, soybean and cotton.

The indecisive stand of the government on the issue of bonus for paddy is likely to play havoc with the crop planning during the season.

The inflows into common irrigation projects of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana remained almost dismal last year and there was no let up in the situation so far this year.

The driver, who carried the load from Mutaiyakota to Bejjanki, informed him that the paddy that got wet had not been purchased and that they were waiting for this to happen for the last three days.