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Accuses Congress government of focusing on Miss World pageant while farmers were suffering across the State
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Farmers in the district growing Yasangi paddy were facing challenges in controlling the stem borer. To tackle the issue, farmer Koka Sudhakar Reddy installed solar-powered light traps on his six-acre paddy field in Bandarupally village, Thoguta mandal, with guidance from agriculture extension officer T Nagarjuna.
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Though the officials have estimated the cotton to be sowed in 20 acres, the crop is likely to be cultivated in 500 acres.
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Harish Rao said that the government had failed to make arrangements to purchase paddy, cotton, and maize, forcing farmers to sell their produce to middlemen at a much cheaper rate than the MSP.
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Let alone earning profits, the farmers could not even get back their investment in the crop, as invasions by monkeys, wild boars, parrots and other birds have destroyed the crops.
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Apart from paddy, maize, jowar, tobacco, ground nut, chilly, onions and horticulture farmers had incurred losses as standing crops were lost.
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State government has decided to procure maize produced by farmers in the Yasangi season, announces MSP of Rs 1,962 per quintal
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Ankara: A freighter carrying maize from Ukraine on Monday reached Turkey, becoming the first vessel to reach its final destination since a deal was made to release stores of food that have been stuck in Black Sea ports since Russia began its invasion of Kiev in February. The Turkish-flagged Polarnet reached Kocaeli, on the Sea […]
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Hyderabad: With the cost of maize increasing, the poultry industry has appealed for allotment of damaged wheat, paddy and/or broken rice – unfit for human consumption – for use in poultry feed. The National Egg Coordination Council (NECC) on Sunday appealed to the government of India to allot at least 2 million tonnes of damaged […]
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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.
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While the total area expected to be transplanted for this Vanakalam in 16 mandals of Warangal Rural district is 75,767 acres, the operation has been carried out in 7,438 acres till July 20
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Early rains help farmers commence sowing in about 27.6 lakh acres
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Addressing the media at the District Police Office here Nalgonda, Ravindra said the seized spurious seeds comprised 1,700 quintals of cotton seeds, 350 quintals of chilli seeds and 2,500 quintals of paddy seeds.
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Good spells of rain in past few months resulted in 49% excess rainfall for Yasangi crop season.
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Asks officials to promote cultivation of cotton, oilseeds and pulses, suggests agri expert summit for brand-building of cotton
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Hyderabad: BJP State president and Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar has said that the unilateral directions of the State government asking farmers to stick to regulated farming pattern, is deeply troubling the farmers. He said that the recent decision of the State government asking farmers not to grow maize is one of such decisions. In […]
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The Chief Minister urged farmers not to cultivate maize in the upcoming Yasangi season under any circumstances.
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Minister suggested that the agriculture officials should encourage the farmers to cultivate Bengal gram, ground nut and other oil seeds during Yasangi instead of maize