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Khammam: Agriculture Minister Singireddy Niranjan Reddy has exhorted farmers in the State to cultivate cotton in the yasangi season along with vanakalam. Yasangi cotton cultivation was good practice as cultivation starts in December and crop yield starts in April. Yasangi cotton cultivation would be profitable with availability of 24-hour power and irrigation water, the minister […]

Sangareddy: In a rare invasion of crops by insects, a rout of snails began damaging Soybean, Groundnut, and Cotton crops in different areas of Sangareddy district. Worried farmers who spotted snails in abnormal numbers in their fields brought it to the notice of the Agriculture department officials. Similar complaints were received from several farmers in […]

Hyderabad: Cotton will be the major crop with sowing area of nearly 70 lakh acres out of total 1.42 crore acres to be cultivated during the ensuing Vaanakalam season. While paddy farming will be taken up in about 45 lakh acres, the cultivation of red gram has been proposed to be taken up in around […]

Adilabad: Farm activities gained momentum with onset of monsoon across erstwhile Adilabad. Farmers began preparing agricultural lands for raising various crops for this Vanakalam season. Farmers began tilling fields, clearing weeds, erecting fences as part of the preparations for the ongoing agriculture season. Some of the farmers are dumping cow-dung and other organic fertilizers to […]

Hyderabad: The State government would focus on cultivation of cotton and red gram as an alternate to paddy during the upcoming Vaanakalam crop season this year. For this, the Agricultural Extension Officers (AEOs) have been directed to conduct field visits, identify suitable lands through soil testing and create awareness among farmers to shift to alternate […]

Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said farmers were convinced with State Government’s intentions to avoid paddy cultivation in Yasangi and were taking up alternate crops extensively across the State. Despite repeated pleas by State Government last year, many farmers did not take up cotton cultivation. As a result, they failed to reap good profits, […]

Warangal: Red hot chillies are making waves in the market. In a record price on Monday, red chillies were sold at Rs 55,551 per quintal at the Enumamula agriculture market yard here. Perela Kishan Rao, a farmer from Govindapuram village of Nallabelli mandal, brought 30 bags of Desi variety chilli to the market. The produce […]

What’s it about: State IT department takes up pilot project on AI based pest management for cotton 2,800 villages in Karimnagar, Nagarkurnool, Nalgonda, Khammam, Wanaparthy and Mahabubabad covered AI based solution enabled cotton farmers to identify pest attacks in the early stages and initiate corrective measures accordingly to avoid crop damage Hyderabad: This Kharif season, […]

Khammam: Cotton fetched a record price in agriculture markets in Khammam district on Wednesday. The produce, for the first time in the district, fetched Rs 10,200 per quintal at Julurpad market while in Khammam market, it fetched Rs 10,000, a price much higher than the minimum support price of Rs 6,250 fixed by Cotton Corporation […]

Warangal: Much to the joy of cotton farmers, the maximum price of cotton per quintal touched the Rs 8,800 mark on Wednesday at the Enumamula agriculture market yard in Warangal. This is said to be the highest ever price for cotton recorded at the Enumamula market. Chirra Ganesh, a cotton farmer from Madipally village in […]

Khammam: Cotton produce fetched a record price of Rs 7500 per quintal at Khammam Agriculture Market on Thursday. According to the market sources, it was the highest price paid to the produce so far in the market and the produce purchased at that price was harvested last season. The cotton harvest has begun and the […]

Telangana supplied about 178.55 lakh quintals of cotton during the Kharif (Vaanakalam) Marketing Season of 2020-21.

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.

While the total area expected to be transplanted for this Vanakalam in 16 mandals of Warangal Rural district is 75,767 acres, the operation has been carried out in 7,438 acres till July 20

To make the session more interesting the activity was connected with English by writing the initial letters of different objects having different textures.

He appealed to farmers to reduce paddy cultivation and instead opt for cotton, pulses and oil seeds during the ongoing Vaanakalam (Kharif) season.

Early rains help farmers commence sowing in about 27.6 lakh acres

Farm operations commenced in about 18.88 lakh acres across the State with cotton alone sown in around 14.82 lakh acres and red gram in 1.58 lakh acres

Addressing the media at the District Police Office here Nalgonda, Ravindra said the seized spurious seeds comprised 1,700 quintals of cotton seeds, 350 quintals of chilli seeds and 2,500 quintals of paddy seeds.

Ramanna stated that the government was offering the seeds to farmers to encourage them to grow the crop by providing a subsidy of 100 percent.