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The protest was to demand that the government provide a remunerative price of Rs 25,000 to solve the problems of chilli farmers in the State

The State had earlier this year faced a significant decline in red chilli prices, with rates plummeting from over Rs 28,000 per quintal in the previous season to less than Rs 7,000 per quintal

Lack of government assistance, mounting financial burden compounded by family struggles are leading to tragic outcomes in Telangana's farming community

The leaders of the parties and farmers staged a massive dharna in front of the collectorate

Slams Congress government for neglecting the farmers’ welfare and appealed to Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy to refrain from uttering lies to the people

Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said this after holding a review meeting with chilli farmers, sellers, exporters, and other stakeholders at the State secretariat

Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan says that ICAR will send an expert team to visit chilli fields in the State

The farmers associations feel that nothing much has been done by the Spices Board of India for chilli farmers as it focuses much on other spices. As a result, chilli farmers, when selling the produce, are at the mercy of traders, who are accused of exploiting the farmers in terms of offering a profitable price

Chilli crop in a large extent of area in the district has been affected by ‘nalla tamara’ (black thrips). According to horticulture officials and scientists, the pest infestation would result in loss in yield due to curling of leaves, flowers falling off and malformed/stunted fruits or premature fruit drop

Enmeshed in web of severe financial distress, farmers — especially those growing groundnut, chilli and red gram crops — are organising widespread demonstrations

CPI (ML) ND state leader Avunuri Madhu said that the MSP law should be passed to offer a profitable price to farmers

Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao ordered the official to take measures to prevent recurrence of such incidents, to ensure that the farmers do not face any inconvenience in the markets

The protest continued for over two hours and farmers insisted on the visit of Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao

District Collector VP Gautham inspected the purchases of chilli and enquired about the problems of the farmers.

The districts of Warangal and Khammam, largest producers of red chilli in the State witnessed a sharp decline in the price.

The agitated farmers even blocked vehicular traffic for some time near the market and raised slogans against the market committee chairman

Revenue authorities have already identified 30 acres of land for chilli research station at Kannaraopet village in Nallabelli Mandal.

Warangal: Much to the surprise and joy of the chilli farmers, the Desi variety chilli has created history by fetching Rs 52,000 per quintal on Tuesday at the Enumamula agriculture market here. The same variety of chilli got a record price of Rs 48,000 per quintal on March 22, while the same variety was sold […]

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 […]

Khammam: Chilli farmers in the district demanded that the government pay compensation to the farmers whose crop was damaged by pest infestation. Seeking to consider the damage to the crop as a natural calamity and Rs 1 lakh per acre compensation, a large number of farmers laid siege to the district horticulture office here on […]