A newly-emerging disease, caused by Tobacco Streak Virus and affecting the BT cotton crop, is creating panic among farmers in Kurnool and Nandyal districts, where pink bollworm is already wreaking havoc causing severe yield loss. “At present, the incidence is concentrated in Gudur, Kodumuru, Emmiganur madals of Kurnool district and Atmakur and Nandyal mandals of Nandyal district,” said scientists of …
Activists have opposed the State government’s plan to use 50 acres of the Regional Agriculture Research Station’s land for establishing a medical college in Nandyal, and have suggested that vacant land of the Agriculture Market Yard be used instead. Rayalaseema Saaguneeti Sadhana Samithi president Bojja Dasaratharami Reddy said that while the initiative of the State government to set up a …
KURNOOL: AP cabinet’s decision to alienate 50 acres of land belonging to Regional Agriculture Research Station at Nandyal for established the proposed medical college in the town has alienated both farmers and the scientific community. The Regional Agriculture Research Station at Nandyal, the headquarters of Scarce Rainfall Zone, is located on fertile lands. Bojja Dasarath Reddy, President of Rayalaseema Saguneetti …
