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Kamareddy: As monsoon is active across the State, farmers are commencing ploughing and farming activities and State Government is taking measures to ensure timely supply of water to the fields. Speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy on Saturday evening released water from Nizamsagar project into the distributary canals. The entire ayacut of 1.30 lakh acres under Nizamsagar […]
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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 […]
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Hyderabad: Stating that the ruling TRS leaders were deliberately misguiding farmers’ on installation of meters for farm connections, BJP State president Bandi Sanjay said the TRS Government was not collecting power bills from Gajwel, Siddipet and Old City areas. “The free power meant for supply to the farming community, is being misused. If meters are […]
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Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, observing that the country’s farmers had the firepower to change governments, called upon the ryots to come together to launch a nation-wide movement to secure their Constitutional rights including guaranteed Minimum Support Price (MSP) for their crops. “Farmers can change governments. It is not a difficult task for them,” […]
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Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao called upon the farmers of the country to join hands in putting up a fight and ensure the Constitutional guarantee to get Minimum Support Price (MSP) for their crop. Stating that the farmers were capable of replacing the governments and turning the power tables, he urged them to vote […]
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Hyderabad: FreshToHome (FTH), an ecommerce platform that sells meat and fish directly sourced from livestock farmers and fishermen, plans to increase its presence in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. FTH has invested about Rs 10 crore to build its infrastructure including a processing unit. While it delivers about 15 lakh orders per month in ten large […]
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Hyderabad: The State unit of Congress on Friday found fault with Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s national tour and demanded that he address the alleged issues faced by farmers in the State. AICC spokesperson Dasoju Sravan on Friday accused the Chief Minister of going on a national tour only to derive political mileage at the […]
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Warangal: Though the Kakatiya Urban Development Authority (KUDA) put off its process to pool the land from 27 villages following strong opposition from farmers, the farmers seems be not happy with the decision as they ‘fear’ that the government would definitely resume the process after some time. Keeping this in view, they are demanding the […]
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Narayanpet: System of Rice Intensification (SRI), a method under which rice is cultivated using more organic manure and intermittent irrigation, has helped farmers in the district cut down input costs, improve plant growth and water savings, says a study. The SRI impact assessment was undertaken in 20 project villages in Narayanpet. The villages were pooled […]
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Rajanna-Sircilla: Unseasonal rain coupled with gale disturbed normal life in some parts of the district on Saturday. While paddy stored in paddy purchasing centers got soaked in the rain water, houses were also damaged in some areas. Seven farmers were injured when lightning struck at IKP paddy purchasing center in Mamidipalli and Kanagaarithi villagers. […]
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Hyderabad: The Congress party will unveil its plans for Telangana’s agriculture sector at the public meeting to be addressed by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at Warangal on Friday evening. After failing to capture power twice (2014 and 2018) despite claiming credit for carving out the separate state, the Congress will begin its preparations for next year’s […]
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Nalgonda: In all, 39,620 metric tons of paddy of yasangi crop season was procured from 5,293 farmers through 211 paddy procurement centre in Nalgonda as on April 30. The district authorities are working with a target of completing the paddy procurement in the district in 15 or 20 days. Out of 254 proposed paddy procurement […]
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Nalgonda: The district police busted an eight members gang, which was cheating the farmers offering agriculture equipment at 50 per cent subsidized price. The gang has collected Rs.3.83 crore from the farmers of 79 villages in the district. Former Water shed assistant Nukala Nagaraju was the kingpin of the fraud team. The arrested were Nukala […]
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Mancherial: The menace of smuggling of banned spurious cotton seeds continues to haunt Mancherial district even as police and authorities of the agriculture department jointly try to clamp down it. It is leaving an adverse impact on farmers and soil. The operations of sowing cotton seeds would usually commence in June. Farmers buy the seeds […]
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Kumram Bheem Asifabad/Adilabad: Special Secretary to Chief Minister Officer (CMO) Smitha Sabharwal instructed the officials of the irrigation department to take steps to ensure water reached the tail pond of irrigation projects helping farmers to grow crops. She convened a review meeting with the authorities in Asifabad on Monday. Smitha told the officials to take […]
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Hyderabad: Forget about its promise of doubling the farmers’ income, the NDA-led union government appears to be making attempts to double the input costs for farmers who are toiling in their fields to feed the nation. After cutting short the subsidies on fertilisers and other input investments, the Centre had recently hiked the fuel prices […]
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Medak: Two persons were drowned in a tank at Kallakal village in Manoharabad Mandal on Sunday. The victims were Rushaboyina Keshavulu (36) and Yellampet Ravi (42) of Kallakal village. The victims along with their cattle reached Pothanna Kunta while grazing them when Ravi accidentally slipped into the tank. In a bid to save Ravi, Keshavulu […]
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Hyderabad: Ministers P Sabitha Indra Reddy and Vemula Prashanth Reddy on Tuesday thanked Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao for declaring that the State government would procure paddy cultivated in Yasangi. In a statement issued here, Sabitha Reddy criticised the double standards of the BJP leaders in the State on the paddy procurement issue. It was […]
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Hyderabad: Lashing out at BJP State president and MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar, TRS MLC and Rythu Bandhu Samithi Chairman Palla Rajeshwar Reddy said the former lacks basic knowledge about food grain procurement. At a time when the Centre went on record saying farmers suicides had come down drastically in Telangana, the BJP State leaders were […]
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Hyderabad: A large number of farmers dumped paddy in front of the house of BJP MP Dharmapuri Arvind at Armoor in Nizamabad district on Tuesday morning and registered their protest demanding that the Central government immediately procure paddy from them. Holding placards, irate farmers raised slogans denouncing the alleged apathetic attitude of the Central government in […]
