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Mancherial: The torrential rains that lashed the district for six days in a row in the last week affected normal life. They in particular wreaked havoc on nearly 18,000 farmers of the district by damaging standing crops in about 30,000 acres. As per information provided by authorities concerned, crops being raised in 27,592 acres were […]
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Hyderabad: Shortage of labour is one of the key challenges for farmers. Its associated costs are also huge. While mechanisation options are available for the big farmers, the small farmers do not have such options due to small land holdings. To address these issues, city-based XMachines has created a miniature tractor-like device that uses robotics […]
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Hyderabad: With heavy rains lashing across the State and the union government stopping procurement of custom milled rice (CMR), the State government is now exploring options to auction the paddy procured from farmers recently. Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar asked the officials to prepare proposals which will be submitted to Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao […]
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Hyderabad: The disbursement of Rythu Bandhu investment support scheme is being carried out at a brisk pace with the State government trasferring about Rs 6,764.94 crore of a total Rs 7,508 crore in the ninth tranche of the scheme as on Tuesday. Farmers have received Rs 50,448 crore in the last eight tranches of the […]
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Nagarkurnool: The Amrabad Tiger Reserve (ATR) officials have installed a solar-powered sensor-based Animal Intrusion Detection and Repellent System (ANIDERS), which raises an alarm when a wild animal passes within its radius. The move aims at minimising man-animal conflict and helping farmers save their fields. The officials installed an ANIDERS at Turkapally village near Mannanur, which […]
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Adilabad: Several parts of Kumram Bheem Asifabad, Adilabad, Mancherial and Nirmal districts recorded moderate rains, cheering farmers on Monday. According to the weather report available on the website of Telangana State Development Society, the average rainfall of districts was gauged to be 55.2 mm. Bejjur mandal received the highest rainfall by 88 mm, followed by […]
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Adilabad: Collector Sikta Patnaik advised farmers to follow suggestions of experts in cultivating oil palm trees and to grow financially. She visited an oil palm nursery at Madanapur village in Talamadugu mandal on Friday. Sikta said that 68,400 oil palm saplings were readied for planting in 1,368 acres under first phase and 125,400 saplings meant […]
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Hyderabad: The State government has deposited a total Rs 1,820.75 crore into the bank accounts of 36.3 lakh farmers for the ninth season of ‘Rythu Bandhu’ investment support scheme as on Wedneday. Since the launch of the scheme, Rs 50,448 crore were provided to farmers under the scheme in the last eight tranches while Rs […]
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Adilabad: While the long spell of rains brought cheer to all, the lightning strikes became a cause for concern for the farmers. Evidently, 10 farmers including a woman and a boy were stuck dead by lightning in different parts of erstwhile Adilabad district over the fortnight. Farmers are now tensed by the consecutive deaths caused […]
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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 […]
