November 2, 2024

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Cotton sowing crosses 50 lakh acres in Telangana

With the State recording copious monsoon rains, farmers in Telangana have done cotton sowing on above fifty lakh acres.

The State qualified an region of 60 lakh acres to be beneath cotton this kharif time as it commenced the regulated cropping method.

As sowings are in complete swing, farmers and officials of the Agriculture Department are confident that the remaining ten lakh acres would be coated in the upcoming couple weeks.

The drive by the State government for certain crops reflected in the figures. The State recorded fifty.14 lakh acres in cotton sowing as from 34.sixty six lakh acres the same working day previous yr.

“The kharif time is progressing perfectly as for each the government’s new regulated cropping method,” B Janardhan Reddy, Commissioner of Agriculture, Govt of Telangana, explained to BusinessLine.

Rainfall

As monsoon progressing perfectly, the State has so significantly received 318.six mm of rain as from the time standard of 236.three mm, displaying an boost of 35 for each cent.

Below the new crop regulation method, the government has requested the farmers not to develop maize this time. On the other hand, the farmers sowed the cereal on about 1.twenty five lakh acres as from the time standard of about five lakh acres.

The State Authorities has refused Rythu Bandhu added benefits (₹5,000 each and every in the two seasons for every single acre a farmer owns) to these who violated the regulated regions.

“Farmers could possibly have absent for maize in some regions to satisfy the contractual obligations with poultry and other industries,” a farmers’ union chief has claimed.

“The State purchased maize in excessive to the standard concentrations. We have requested the farmers not to go for maize as the State is saddled with piled-up shares from previous yr. They can develop it in the Rabi time,” a Authorities official claimed.

Paddy sowing, way too, are in complete swing in the State. At three.97 lakh acres, paddy sowing overtook previous year’s three.97 lakh acres.