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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.

The BJP would be chased away and a farmers government would be formed at the Centre, says KCR

With leaders of farmers unions unanimously adopting a resolution urging KCR to lead a nationwide campaign to unite farmers for struggles, the TRS leader appears set to don a national role.

Farmers community celebrated the annual Polala or Pola, a festival of thanks-giving to farm animals for toiling for their masters. Cultural programmes were also conducted to mark the occasion in certain parts of the district.

Farmers from 25 states visited Telangana to study farmer-friendly initiatives, taken by the KCR Govt. The farming community is now urging their respective State governments to emulate the Telangana model, in order to double the farmers' income.

Nalgonda: Farmers’ First Foundation on Wednesday urged the State government to confine the investment support under Rythu Bandhu scheme to five acres of land for beneficiary farmers. Thus, the State government can enhance the investment support to Rs 10,000 per acre per season from the existing Rs 5,000 per acre to help the small and […]

Hyderabad: The Central government gave orders not to carry out buying or selling power without giving any notice, said senior officials from Telangana Energy department here on Friday. “We could not understand as to why the Centre barred Telangana despite a stay order from the High Court,” they said, adding that 20 million units of […]

Hyderabad: Complimenting Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his grand goals for 2047, Industries Minister KT Rama Rao sought to know about the past promises made by the Prime Minister for August 15, 2022. The Minister shared images of news reports about Prime Minister’s promises to double the farmers income by 2022, bullet trains operations by […]

Mahabubabad: Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao distributed the saplings of the oil palm to the selected farmers at the Haripirala village of Thorrur mandal in the district on Saturday. He has visited the oil palm nursery along with the District Collector K Shashanka and other officials, and interacted with the management […]

Adilabad: After a lull, rains returned to Adilabad district. Several parts of the district saw moderate rains disrupting normal life and wreaking havoc to farmers on Tuesday. The average rainfall of the day was measured to be 27.4 mm. Tamsi mandal had the highest rainfall of 71 mm, followed by Adilabad Rural mandal which experienced […]