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Agriculture Minister Nageswara Rao blamed the Centre for a 3-lakh-tonne urea shortfall, urged farmers to use alternatives, and announced strict monitoring, token-based distribution, and action against black marketing and misuse

Farmers in Kumram Bheem Asifabad faced delays and inconvenience due to a urea shortage, with some accusing private traders of overpricing and diverting fertilisers, though authorities denied these claims

Wants government to ensure that farmers are paid dues as per their agreements with seed companies

According to survey reports, crops in 51,528 acres have been damaged by hailstorm and rain, impacting 41,361 farmers across 29 districts of the State

A man was booked for illegally transporting sorghum grains from Maharashtra to Telangana, at an inter-state check-post at Laxmipur village in Thalamadu mandal on Tuesday

Agriculture department complained against District Agriculture Officer R Srinivas Rao, accused of availing reservations by furnishing a fake community certificate to get the job for not just one or two years, but over 28 years

15 rain harvesting pits each should be developed in Khammam rural, Kusumanchi, Nelakondapalli, Tirumalayapalem, Wyra, Enkoor and Singareni mandals, where groundwater is decreasing, suggests Collector Muzammil Khan

The Agriculture Department issued orders on March 5 to display lists in all gram panchayats, revealing names, bank branch details, and credited amounts - raising serious privacy concerns

The Telangana Employees JAC Chairman, V. Laxmi Reddy, who addressed the meeting, emphasized the crucial role of Seed Certification Officers in providing quality seeds to farmers and assured that the demands would be taken up with the Chief Minister.

The AEOs across the State participated in the Rythu Nestham program, squatting on the ground in protest on Tuesday. They have warned of mass leave if the unjust suspensions were not revoked by Wednesday

The area under paddy in the current season, as per the projections of the Agriculture Department, is expected to be over 66 lakh acres, little over one third of the projected Kharif area of 1.52 crore acres this year.

The crop loan waiver is a key component of the Congress government's six guarantees. The State government faces a burden of approximately Rs 32,000 crore to waive all pending crop loans till the last Rabi season.

All are residents of Brahamanpally in Madgul. Earlier, three persons were arrested in the same case. According to the police, the trio procured the spurious seeds from A.Malla Reddy of Keshampet and sold it to farmers and other dealers locally and made easy money.

There are four soil testing centres in erstwhile Khammam district with a static lab in Khammam, one testing centre at Sathupalli agriculture market, Kothagudem and Bhadrachalam market yard.

The Minister, on the way to Miryalaguda, met farmers at agricultural fields at Thipparthy and interacted with them.

The official allegedly demanded Rs.25,000 from a woman employee to sanction maternity leave.

IT and Municipal Administration Minister KT Rama Rao spoke to the district collector Anurag Jayanthi over phone and asked him to submit crop damage report.

Hyderabad: As many as 109 farmers will be ineligible for availing Rythu Bandhu scheme since Agriculture department disqualified them for facing cases for cultivating marijuana. The list of 109 farmers was prepared by the Prohibition and Excise department after collecting relevant information from all the excise stations across the State. The cases were booked only […]

Sowing operations have been completed in about 82.49 lakh acres covering nearly 70.7 per cent of the normal cultivation area of 1.16 crore acres for Vaanakalam (Kharif) season this year.

The raid, part of a crackdown to curb sale of spurious seeds and illegal hoardings of seeds, was at the Real India Agro Tech storage unit which had castor seeds, paddy seeds and lentils seeds stored illegally.