Telangana’s Kharif season began on a strong note with excess rainfall boosting sowing beyond last year’s figures. But a growing urea shortage now threatens paddy crops, with experts warning of up to 50 per cent yield loss due to nitrogen deficiency
The BRS working president said the Telangana region was earlier one of the most drought-prone and arid areas where lack of irrigation sources and willful neglect by previous governments had resulted in agricultural distress and the massive number of farmers committing suicides before 2014.
