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Nizamabad collector C Narayana Reddy is motivating progressive farmers of the district to come forward to take up oil palm cultivation.

Adilabad: Farmers of Mukhra (K) village in Echoda mandal on Monday took out a rally and performed a Ksheerabhisekam on a flex poster of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao to mark the victory of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi in Munugode. During the rally, the farmers played drums and raised slogans, hailing Chandrashekhar Rao for implementing […]

Amaravati: Six women agriculture labourers were electrocuted to death in Andhra Pradesh‘s Anantapur district on Wednesday. The incident occurred when a high tension wire fell on the agriculture workers who were harvesting in the field in Dargah Honnur village in Bommanahal mandal. Some other workers were also injured in the accident. On receipt of the […]

Many farmers in Mancherial district are shifting to alternative crops as advised by the State government in the wake of the Centre’s disinterest to procure paddy.

The organisers announced that they will resume the long march after the High Court's decision on their petition. Since there are holidays for the court currently, they decided to give a four-day break to the Padyatra for four days.

Hyderabad: Proving its apparent anti-farmer leanings, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is once again at the receiving end of the farmer’s ire in a State ruled by the saffron party itself. The BJP-led Centre, after making Telangana’s paddy farmers suffer by refusing to procure the crop in time earlier this year, is remaining silent even […]

YS Jagan Mohan Reddy released Rs.2096 crore towards the second tranche of financial assistance to farmers under the YSR Rythu Bharosa-PM Kisan scheme

"Under PM Kisan the 12th instalment worth of funds Rs 16,000 crore has been sent to farmers across India. Under 'One nation, one fertilizer', farmers will be provided with cheaper & good quality fertilizer," said PM Modi.

Developed by Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agriculture University (PJTSAU), Telangana Sona is now going places.

K Chandrashekhar Rao to focus on agriculture and make it his priority to ensure global competitiveness for the agriculture sector, which is the need of the hour to address multiple issues.

Hyderabad: Farmers led by the Consortium of Indian Farmers Associations (CIFA) on Tuesday demanded the Centre to implement farmer-friendly initiatives to ensure remunerative returns to farmers. They said though parties like TRS were focusing on farming to increase production, the high-cost inputs and labour due to the lack of Central policy, was making agriculture non-remunerative. […]

Hyderabad: Experts at the Telangana Development Forum (TDF)’s ‘Nature Farming Awareness and Training Camp’ urged farmers to cut down usage of pesticides and weedicides in their fields as these was leading to different issues, especially health. The camp was organized at Anireddy Natural Farms, Lingampally Village, Ibrahimpatnam for the benefit of farmers and consumers as […]

Founder of Farmers First foundation Chakradhar Goud has donated Rs 1 lakh each to 100 bereaved families in Siddipet on Sunday.

Telangana is the only State in the country, which is providing 24-hours free electricity supply to 26.96 lakh agricultural consumers.

Hyderabad: Farmers should be encouraged to grow agricultural products like millets keeping in view contemporary conditions and food habits of the world, Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said. He stated that Telangana was recording a huge increase in crop production in the last eight years and that cultivation was taken up in about 1.45 crore […]

The sighting of a tiger in the agriculture fields triggered panic among farmers and villagers in the Dhanora village of Bheempur mandal on Friday.

After 21 days, water was released to left canal to avoid any loss to the farmers, who have already taken up plantation of paddy in the ayacut.

Nalgonda: Nalgonda MP N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Sunday urged the State government to take up measures to resume water release to left canal of Nagarjuna Sagar Project (NSP) to protect the crops of farmers in the ayacut. Release of water to left canal of NSP was stopped by the officials of the project after […]

SIRMA demanded the Central Government to lift ban on export of broken rice and abolish the 20 export duty on a few rice varieties

Telangana was the only State providing quality and uninterrupted power at free of cost to farmers, says RBI report.