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Congress government which borrowed Rs 3,000 crore from HUDCO for the RRR project, prioritised payments to big contractors over affected farmers, says BRS

Subsidies available for drip irrigation, sprinklers, oil palm cultivation, pandal systems, bamboo cultivation among others, says District Horticulture Officer

Women farmers participated, holding pesticide bottles, highlighting their desperation and financial distress. They urged authorities to take swift action to prevent further losses.

Farmers in Makthal and neighbouring areas are up in arms against the State government’s plans to acquire their lands for the Narayanpet-Kodangal Lift Irrigation scheme

On Friday, farmers from Katrapally village under Makthal mandal opposed the Revenue department officials from conducting surveys of their lands. They raised slogans against the Congress government and demanded the officials to withdraw their plans.

The district records an average rainfall of 11 mm; Basar mandal receives the highest rainfall of 24.8 mm

A fight between two bulls led to the death of five cattle by electrocution at Suraram village of Julurpad mandal in the district on Saturday

Two farmers were assaulted when they prevented some unidentified persons from stealing sorghum grains stored at an agriculture market yard here on Wednesday night

Agriculture officials, who declared crop loss on 9,150 acres in Siddipet on April 10, reduced the figure to 4,686 acres

The Rythu Bharosa scheme, unveiled with great enthusiasm on January 26, pledged ₹6,000 per acre to all farmers in a phased rollout. Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy had personally assured that the investment support would be fully disbursed by March 31. However, the distribution has been progressing slowly.

Farmers in Rustumpet, Sitharampur, Moosapet, Chinthakunta, and Narsapur villages have suffered heavy losses from rains and hailstorms damaging paddy crops

In the hope that the government would release water, farmers went ahead and cultivated crops on lands under the project. Despite their best efforts—transporting water in tanks, digging open wells, and drilling new borewells—only a few managed to save their crops.

Terms Korukanti Chander’s padayatra for Godavari water a commendable effort to open the eyes of the government

The government plans to increase paddy area and food grain production in 29 non-Cauvery Delta districts

The water was seen flowing over a check dam at Ghanpur in Nanganur mandal where the farmers welcomed the sight holding banners of former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and Harish Rao. They hailed the two leaders for getting Godavari water to their agriculture fields

Farmers raised slogans demanding the collector Sandeep Kumar Jha to visit the spot and give assurance to solve their problem.

Farmers are raising concerns that agricultural lands at the tail end of NSP’s major and minor canals are not receiving adequate water. Rabi crops are wilting due to insufficient irrigation, and the situation is expected to worsen as summer intensifies.

In a post on X, Harish Rao highlighted that after police had to distribute tokens for urea in Mahabubabad recently, a similar situation had now arisen in Jagtial. Farmers, enduring long hours under the scorching sun, were seen placing their land passbooks and other documents to secure their place in the queue.

Farmers, who had been waiting since early morning for urea, marked their places in line by leaving their footwear in front of the Primary Agriculture Cooperative Society (PACS). As soon as the urea stock arrived, they rushed to the spot.

BRS leader and MLC K Kavitha demanded Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy to take immediate action to address the farmers' grievances