Minister urges ryots to rethink on paddy farming, go for alternative crops
Telangana Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageshwara Rao has urged farmers to shift from water-intensive paddy cultivation to alternative crops due to severe rainfall deficits caused by El Nino. The government is preparing to support this transition by providing seeds, micro-irrigation equipment, and increased agricultural credit facilities.
Minister for Agriculture Tummala Nageshwara Rao has asked the farming community to rethink on cultivating paddy this season and consider raising other less water intensive crops as it is already forecast that the impact, scanty rainfall, of El Nino conditions, would continue in August too.
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