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1 week, 3 days ago

Headline: Water Released from Lower Manair Dam for Rabi Season

KARIMNAGAR: District collector Pamela Satpathy on Tuesday released water from the Lower Manair Dam reservoir for irrigation needs in rabi season to the Ayukut farmers through Kakatiya canal here in Karimnagar. Superintending engineer P. Ramesh told the collector that the officials prepared proposals for releasing 44,480 tmc water for rabi season and water will be available for irrigation needs of …

Water Lmd Rabi Season Irrigation Needs

1 month, 2 weeks ago

45,000 acres to get water for Rabi crops in Kurnool: Minister

Deccan Chronicle

Bharath said water will be supplied to 45,000 acres for Rabi crops under the Tungabhadra Lower Canal from December 10 to the end of March. Panyam MLA Gowru Charitha Reddy suggested passing a resolution to establish the Krishna River Management Board in Kurnool district while Adoni MLA V. Parthasarathy urged measures to prevent drinking water shortages in Adoni during the …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Eyebrows raised as Central team visits Anantapur to assess rabi drought during rainy kharif

The Hindu

The farmers of the Anantapur and Sri Sathya Sai districts are baffled by the Central Drought Team’s visit scheduled during the ongoing kharif to assess the impact of the drought of rabi of 2023-24. The farmers of the two perennially drought-struck districts are worried about how to present their drought woes to the officials, who are scheduled to be here …

Drought Rainfall District Visit Mandal Central Team Vidapanakallu

1 year, 8 months ago

KCR assures to buy damaged paddy at MSP

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Providing relief to farmers who have suffered significant losses as a result of the unseasonal rains for the past week, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Tuesday announced that the state government will purchase damaged and soaked paddy stocks currently lying in market yards at MSP. At a high-level meeting with ministers and senior officials held at the newly …

Farmers Paddy Officials Season Rao Msp Directed

1 year, 11 months ago

Paddy cultivation in rabi season exceeds estimates in Telangana

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Paddy cultivation in the ongoing rabi season in Telangana has surpassed expectations and projections. Data obtained from the agriculture department for the week ended January 11 showed that the normal crop sown area for paddy in the rabi season is 33,53,921 acres. Agriculture officials cite last year’s lower paddy cultivation to restrictions imposed by the Centre, which had refused …

Farmers Rice Power Telangana Paddy Centre Paddy Cultivation

1 year, 11 months ago

India's wheat output may set new record of over 112 lakh tonnes in 2022-23: govt. officials

The Hindu

The country's wheat production is likely to set a new record of more than 112 million tonnes in the 2022-23 crop year, according to official sources. Wheat production had declined to 106.84 million tonnes due to heat wave in key growing states in 2021-22 crop year, as per the agriculture ministry data. In 2020-21, the country had achieved record wheat …

Crop Lakh Record Wheat

2 years ago

21 lakh Telangana farmers receive Rs 607 cr Rythu Bandhu

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: For the ongoing rabi season, 21.02 lakh farmers received Rs 607.32 crore in their bank accounts towards Rythu Bandhu on Wednesday at a rate of Rs 5,000 per acre, while BRS leaders, workers, and farmers held rallies thanking Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao by chanting the BRS campaign slogan ‘Ab Ki Baar, Kisan Sarkar’. Despite financial constraints, the CM …

Farmers Lakh Brs Rythu Acre Rythu Bandhu Rabi Season

2 years, 2 months ago

State at less than 2% of paddy procurement target

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: Paddy procurement by the state government for the kharif season is yet to pick up pace, with procurement of only 1.5 lakh tonnes, against a target of one crore tonnes, completed so far. The government initiated paddy procurement in the last week of October by opening 2,000 centres in Nizamabad and Nalgonda districts, where paddy generally arrives first. This …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Power demand up in Telangana, farmers face cuts

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: With soaring demand for power, top officials from TS Genco, TS Transco and the Discoms attended a meeting at the Chief Minister’s Office on Tuesday to review the power supply situation in the state. Meanwhile, power officials started imposing "unofficial power cuts" on the agriculture sector to meet increased power demand for domestic, commercial and industrial sectors. Farmers complain …

Supply Farmers Power Telangana Power Supply Paddy State

4 years, 2 months ago

Urea Shortage Due to Suspension of Freight Trains to Hit Sowing of Wheat, Vegetables in Punjab

News 18

Chandigarh: The suspension of freight trains in Punjab has caused acute shortage of urea for wheat and vegetable crops in Punjab, with the state authorities saying rabi crop sowing is likely to be hit because of it. Farmers require urea, a key fertiliser for rabi crops, and DAP for sowing wheat and other vegetable crops like potato, an official of …

State Punjab Tonnes Lakh Urea Shortage

4 years, 9 months ago

Bihar farmers facing serious labour crunch due to lockdown

The Hindu

Patna: The prolonged l l ockdown due to COVID-19 has posed a serious problem for farmers in Bihar, as it has restricted their movement and led to a shortage of labourers to harvest their ripe Rabi crops. “As this is the harvest season of rabi crops, the farmers and agricultural labourers are required to go to their fields for harvesting…they …

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6 years ago

20 more talukas to be declared drought-affected in Karnataka

Live Mint

Bengaluru: The expectation of moderately good rain after a decent southwest monsoon had encouraged farmers to sow more rabi crops in Karnataka, but with at least 20 more talukas likely to be included in the list of drought-hit areas, the farmers maybe heading for uncertain times. Almost 50% deficient rainfall during the northeast monsoon has affected 120 out of the …

Karnataka Rain Monsoon Talukas

6 years, 1 month ago

Farmers who sacrificed land for Almatti want dam height increased

Deccan Chronicle

Hubballi: Farmers in the twin districts of Bagalkote and Vijayapur are regularly short of water for irrigation although they sacrificed acres of their land for the construction of the Almatti dam, which unfortunately, has not been able to meet their needs always. Fed up, the farmers are now pitching for an increase in the height of the dam to allow …

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Headline: Water Released from Lower Manair Dam for Rabi Season

45,000 acres to get water for Rabi crops in Kurnool: Minister

Eyebrows raised as Central team visits Anantapur to assess rabi drought during rainy kharif

KCR assures to buy damaged paddy at MSP

Paddy cultivation in rabi season exceeds estimates in Telangana

India's wheat output may set new record of over 112 lakh tonnes in 2022-23: govt. officials

21 lakh Telangana farmers receive Rs 607 cr Rythu Bandhu

State at less than 2% of paddy procurement target

Power demand up in Telangana, farmers face cuts

Urea Shortage Due to Suspension of Freight Trains to Hit Sowing of Wheat, Vegetables in Punjab

Bihar farmers facing serious labour crunch due to lockdown

20 more talukas to be declared drought-affected in Karnataka

Farmers who sacrificed land for Almatti want dam height increased