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229 PPCs in the offing
The district administration is gearing up to open 229 pprocurement centres in the district to purchase paddy from the farmers this kharif season.
Vijayawada: The district administration is gearing up to open 229 pprocurement centres in the district to purchase paddy from the farmers this kharif season.
The peasants are worried with the sudden change of weather conditions in the delta region of Krishna and Guntur districts on Saturday as heavy rains can lash the region in view of the active monsoon in Nellore district and North Tamil Nadu. Nellore district and Chennai city were badly hit by heavy rains.
If the Krishna delta region gets heavy rains, paddy crop will be ruined causing severe loss to the peasants who are expecting bumper harvest this season.
Krishna delta farmers cultivated paddy in 4.16 lakh hectares this kharif. Paddy crop is reached to the harvesting stage. If the two districts get heavy rainfall due to impact of monsoon, the farmers may incur huge loss due to crop damage. Average paddy output is expected between 30 and 35 bags per acre in the Krishna delta
region.
Due to timely and good rainfall in the beginning of this kharif season and subsequent water supply from Pattiseema, the Krishna delta region can get bumper harvest this season.
Krishna District Collector B Lakshmikantham said the district administration has opened 19 paddy procurement centres against the proposed 229 centres in the district. He said good yield is expected this season.
YSRCP farmers wing president M V Nagi Reddy said most of the paddy farmers in Krishna delta are tenant farmers and they may suffer huge loss if the delta region gets heavy rains. Heavy rains already lashed Nellore district. The impact of monsoon may extend to other South Coastal districts of Krishna and Guntur also.
K Bhaskara Rao, a paddy farmer of Gannavaram mandal, said he was hopeful of getting bumper yield due to timely rains in July and August this season. He said last year, the paddy farmers luckily escaped without any natural calamities like cyclones and now worried with sudden change of weather conditions and reports of heavy rains in South Coastal districts.
