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The farmers, in their letters have also demanded the government to announce Rs.25,000 as compensation for each acre of crop that suffered damages due to unseasonal rains or went dry due to water shortage.
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Extensive crop damage has been reported due to the rains and the State government was reviving the crop insurance.
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IT Minister KT Rama Rao said, "All the MLAs and other public representatives of the State should give assurance to the farmers in this difficult time."
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Finance Minister T Harish Rao promised the farmers that he would take up the issue with Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao.
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CM KCR announced a relief and rehabilitation assistance of Rs.10,000 per acre, which is higher than Central recommendations, for the crops damaged due to the recent hailstorms and unseasonal rains in Telangana
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On Thursday morning Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao reached Khammam district to begin an aerial observation of the crop damage, he also inspected fields at Ramapuram, Garlapadu and Govindapuram villages.
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Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao asked the district ministers concerned, the Chief Secretary and the agriculture department officials to get details of the damages due to hailstorms
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IT and Municipal Administration Minister KT Rama Rao spoke to the district collector Anurag Jayanthi over phone and asked him to submit crop damage report.
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Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government will be launching a special drive to provide insurance coverage to farmers against potential crop damage. The drive, slated to begin from the first week of July by the agriculture department, will be flagged off by Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi. It will cover those development blocks which have lower […]
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Warangal: Agriculture Minister Singireddy Niranjan Reddy has assured farmers whose crops were damaged due to the recent unseasonal rains that suitable compensation would be given to them after a report is submitted to Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao. Following directions from the Chief Minister, he along with Panchayat Raj Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao, Rythu Bandhu […]
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Mancherial: Several parts of the district saw rains and hailstorms, causing some damage to agriculture crops on Friday. Mancherial, Jannaram, Jaipur and Chennur mandals of Mancherial district and Narnoor of Adilabad district registered moderate rains, somewhere between 15.4 mm and 64 mm. Dandepalli, Luxettipet, Nennal, Naspur and Hajipur mandals witnessed light rains. Tiryani mandal of […]
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Jayashankar Bhupalpally: In a tragic incident, a farmer died, allegedly by suicide after consuming pesticide at his field in Yeleti Ramaiahpally village of Chityal mandal in the district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Ummanvena Yellaiah (62). According to family members, Yellaiah allegedly took the extreme step as crops in six acres were damaged […]
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Talking to media persons, Agriculture minister K. Kannababu said that the weather forecast spoke of more rains for another two days and in the wake of this, special teams were set up to assess crop damage.