"yasangi"

Telangana is staring at the possibility of the crucial Yasangi crop season taking a major hit with the government citing shortage of water to irrigate ayacut areas of several projects.

The officials have started operating the hydropower plant to release 2,667 cusecs of water downstream.

He directed them to hasten up the process of disbursal reaching out to all sections of the farmers with assistance due to them as the Yasangi operations were still in progress. 

The ayacut farmers should take a crop holiday into consideration and irrigation facility would not be provided for cultivation.

The total area under cultivation could go up from last year's 2.78 lakh acres to 3.06 lakh acres

The Cabinet sub-committee held its first meeting with the stakeholders at the State Secretariat on Wednesday to examine various aspects of crop management during the Yasangi season

Since paddy fields have become muddy after the recent rains, the demand has gone up for track harvesters, which have tracks like war tanks instead of normal wheels

State government has decided to procure maize produced by farmers in the Yasangi season, announces MSP of Rs 1,962 per quintal

Cultivation of paddy in Siddipet district has gone up from 1.06 lakh acres during Yasangi in 2016-17 to 3.48 lakh acres in 2022-23

Gangula Kamalakar said 7,100 paddy procurement centres across the State to procure paddy for the Yasangi season

Nalgonda MLA Kancherla Bhupal Reddy said the State government was committed to purchase every grain of paddy

To ensure there was no inconvenience to farmers, 7,100 procurement centres were being set up across the State

CM KCR on Sunday decided to set up 7,000 Yasangi paddy procurement centres on a war footing in the State

Collector Rajarshi Shah said the State government would set up 413 paddy procurement centres across Medak

There is enough water in Nagarjuna Sagar and water would be supplied as per requirement and farmers need not worry, said Puvvada

All set to witness record production this Yasangi season in the State

There is an increase of 9,000 acres in which paddy has been sowed in the district in the present Yasangi season

Nearly 80 percent of the paddy transplantation has been completed, while sowing of other crops is going on.

The team of scientists have made some suggestions to farmers and agriculture officials to combat the stem borer menace to get a good yield of Yasangi paddy

Major reservoirs like the Nizam Sagar, Singur, Sriram Sagar, Lower Manair Dam, Sripada Yellampalli project, Jurala, Nagarjuna Sagar and Kaddam projects are brimming, with most of the reservoirs maintaining Full Reservoir Level.