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Good rains after long dry spell bring cheers to farmers
The heavy spell of rains in the last three days had brought cheers to farmers, who became busy in agricultural operations like preparing the ground, initiating sowing works. The farmers were worried due to lack of rains for the past 20 days during Kharif season.
Peddpalli: The heavy spell of rains in the last three days had brought cheers to farmers, who became busy in agricultural operations like preparing the ground, initiating sowing works. The farmers were worried due to lack of rains for the past 20 days during Kharif season.
Kharif agricultural works have started in several areas across the district. Farmers of the last ayucut mandals of Kalvasrirampur, Odela, Manthani and Mittaram were busy with transplantation of paddy seedlings and intercultural operations in their fields by hiring the labourers from other areas.
The agricultural department has set a target for cultivation of various types of crops in about 2.3 lakh acres during Kharif in the district. Out of which, paddy cultivation in about 1.2 lakh acres, cotton in 90, 000 acre and pulses in the remaining 20,000 acres.
The sowing of other crops except paddy, was completed by the second week of July and sowing of paddy in 90,000 acres was completed across the district in the last week of August. With the continuous rains for the past three days, the officials were expecting paddy sowing in the remaining 30,000 acres would be completed.
Ginkala Rajaiah, a farmer of Manthani, said that to get higher yields, there should be rainfall till the first week of October or the water level in Sri Ram Sagar Project must reach maximum level.
Due to less amounts of water storage of only 70 tmcs in Sri Ram Sagar Project, many farmers of the last ayucut mandals such as Kalvasrirampur, Odelu, Muttaram and Manthani suffered huge loss during Rabi for insufficient water supply to their fields, he added.
