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Police intervened to pacify the protesters, but the farmers remained defiant and raised slogans denouncing the government's failure to safeguard their interests

Farmers in large numbers attacked the market office and a few staff members complaining that remunerative prices were not being offered by traders for their groundnut crop

Though the officials have estimated the cotton to be sowed in 20 acres, the crop is likely to be cultivated in 500 acres.

Farmers are raising paddy nurseries under assured irrigation sources and sowing rainfed crops like jowar, bajra, maize, ragi, pulses, groundnut, soybean and cotton.

The two standing crops being raised in Talamadugu, Thamsi, Bheempur, Gudihathnoor, Boath, Bazarhathnoor, Gadiguda and Narnoor mandals were affected by the untimely rains and wind.

The market committe chairman P Ramesh Goud felicitated farmer Ramakrishna from Kaluru village in Chinnambavi mandal, whose groundnut crop received the record price

Sangareddy: In a rare invasion of crops by insects, a rout of snails began damaging Soybean, Groundnut, and Cotton crops in different areas of Sangareddy district. Worried farmers who spotted snails in abnormal numbers in their fields brought it to the notice of the Agriculture department officials. Similar complaints were received from several farmers in […]

By G Nagaraj and T Damodaram India is in a paradoxical situation with respect to edible and vegetable oils. It is one of the largest producers and also one of the largest importers. Naturally, it has become a major consumer of edible oils in the world. The country’s edible oils import bill was around Rs […]

Sangareddy: The committment of an Agriculture Extension Officer (AEO) to his job and his innovative bent of mind has brought smiles on the faces of several farmers in Tadkal clust in Kangti mandal of the district. G Santosh, the AEO for the cluster, picked up SK Gangadhar, a progressive farmer and resident of Babulgaon, and […]

Sowing operations have been completed in about 82.49 lakh acres covering nearly 70.7 per cent of the normal cultivation area of 1.16 crore acres for Vaanakalam (Kharif) season this year.

Early rains help farmers commence sowing in about 27.6 lakh acres

With sufficient availabiity of water in tanks, ponds and reservoirs, ryots take up sowing in erstwhile Warangal district

Kothagudem: The action plan for the yasangi agriculture season has been readied for Bhadradri Kothagudem district. It was being planned to take up the crops in about 1,07,265 acres with paddy covering a major area of 74,000 acres land, informed the District Collector MV Reddy here on Monday. He said the officials of agriculture and […]

Positive growth was recorded in export of groundnut (35 per cent), refined sugar (104 per cent), wheat (206 per cent), basmati rice (13 per cent) and non-basmati rice (105 per cent)