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Concern over growing farm fires
The negligent behaviour of farmers from Medak district is costing them losses worth lakhs of rupees. Farmers, after harvesting their crops, are setting fire to the remaining crops which is spreading from one farm to another due to the blazing heat and wind. The fire is engulfing hundreds of acres and burning down haystack, pipelines, farm huts, bore well motors, transformers and anything in sight.
Medak: The negligent behaviour of farmers from Medak district is costing them losses worth lakhs of rupees. Farmers, after harvesting their crops, are setting fire to the remaining crops which is spreading from one farm to another due to the blazing heat and wind. The fire is engulfing hundreds of acres and burning down haystack, pipelines, farm huts, bore well motors, transformers and anything in sight.
On Friday morning a huge farm fire broke-out in Haveli Ghanpur and within no time the fire spread to over 30 acres of land. Nomula Srinivas and Pratap Reddy, whose farms were gutted, suffered heavy losses of more than Rs 1 lakh due to the negligence of some unknown farmer who probably started the fire.
Reporters of The Hans India, Nava Telangana and Bathukamma TV, who were passing from the scene to cover some other story, were first to respond to the incident. They not only called the Sarpanch of Haveli Ghanpur and informed him about the raging fire, but also freed and rescued five buffaloes that were tied in the farms which caught fire.
This is not the first fire accident in villages of Haveli Ghanpur mandal. On Thursday afternoon, a similar incident was reported from Rajipet and Kothapally where hundreds of acres were gutted causing losses worth Rs 15 lakh. The farm fire on Friday was raging right next to the MRO office in the mandal headquarters but the officials and even villagers are unable to trace the farmers causing these fires. It is common for farmers to set their farms on fire after harvesting the crop to save the cost on labour needed to weed-out the left-over stems. Many also believe the ash is good for the crops.
But, according to agricultural experts, setting farm lands on fire is not good for the soil scientifically. "Farmers should go for mulching instead of setting fire to their farms, as mulching increases soil fertility. If not they should pile-up the waste and let it decay, as even that is good for the soil," said Narasimha Reddy, a representative of Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, Sangareddy.
