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Farmers in Jogulamba Gadwal district are battling a severe water crisis as falling groundwater levels and failed borewells threaten standing crops. In several villages, including Tuppatralla, farmers are spending heavily on tanker water to sustain cultivation.

Sobhan Babu, who had been raising chilli crops in his four-acre land for the last three years, was struggling under a heavy burden of debt.

Suryapet: Chilli farmers are facing huge losses in Nalgonda and Suryapet districts due to infesting of western flower thrips to the horticulture crop in thousands of acres of land. The farmers took up cultivation of chilli crop in 27,472 acres in Suryapet district and in 3,073 acres on Nalgonda. More than 28 lakh tonnes of […]