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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Warangal: BJP leaders are misleading the farmers on paddy purchase issue. While the Centre led by BJP is not ready to buy the paddy, the BJP leaders in Telangana instigated the farmers stating that they would ensure purchase of paddy. But both of them have cheated the farmers, alleged Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Minister […]

Suryapet: Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy on Monday said that the Centre should purchase every grain of the wheat and paddy crop produced by the farmers in the country as per food security act. Participating in protest demonstrations held by the TRS members here against the Centre over paddy procurement issue, he said that the […]

Khammam: The Centre’s adverse stance in procuring yasangi paddy from Telangana was harming the interests of farmers in the State, alleged Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar. A long term struggle by the farmers would be launched against the BJP government at Centre if it did not buy the paddy harvested in the State, the minister […]

Karimnagar: CPI State secretary Chada Venkat Reddy found fault with the Central government for showing discrimination towards Telangana by not implementing assurances given in Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act. It was wrong on the part of the Centre to create troubles for farmers in paddy procurement, he said. Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao should not remain […]

Hyderabad: Panchayat Raj Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao on Friday said the onus of making the Centre purchase the entire paddy crop from Telangana was on the BJP State leadership considering the assurances given by the party’s State president Bandi Sanjay as well as union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy. He reminded that the two had, […]

Warangal: Prices of red chilli have been shooting up for the last one month at the Enumamula agriculture market year causing overwhelming joy to the farmers. Enumamula is one of Asia’s biggest agriculture markets located near here. While a quintal of red chilli (Deshi variety) has got a record price of Rs 48,000 per quintal […]