Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao said Godavari water will soon reach four mandals under the NSP ayacut in Khammam. While the Sitarama project water helps Khammam farmers, those in Kothagudem protest the diversion, demanding irrigation for their own farmlands
Speaking in Assembly, Sambasiva Rao reveals that at Nidigonda village in Raghunathapalli mandal of Jangaon district, out of 554 farmers, only two received loan waiver, while 552 were excluded due to Aadhaar discrepancies
The official national handle of the Congress party on X (formerly Twitter) posted that the Telangana Congress government had waived off loans for 40 lakh farmers under its crop loan waiver scheme
Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao said that the main canal works of the project would be completed by July 30 and work was going on war footing to supply irrigation water through Enkur canal (18L).
Steps were being taken to conduct a trial run of Sitarama Lift Irrigation Project pump houses in July month, said Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao.
Nageswara Rao should explain whether the farmers in his native village in Kothagudem district received Rythu Bandhu or not and should be ready for a debate on the state of electricity supply to agriculture in the previous BRS regime and in Congress rule, the MLC stated.
