Telangana IT and Municipal Administration minister KT Rama Rao directed authorities to submit agricultural damage reports following the unexpected rains and hailstorm that devastated many areas of the Rajanna Sircilla district.
KTR called district collector Anurag Jayanthi and requested a crop damage report.
The Minister directed that agricultural department personnel inspect the damaged fields and write a report detailing the extent of the damage, the types of crops destroyed by rains and hailstorms, and the number of farmers who lost crops.
Crops on over 20,000 acres of land were damaged as a result of unseasonal rains and hailstorms in various districts of Telangana.
The hailstorm that hit Telangana on Thursday and Friday destroyed maize, green gram, papaya, mango, and other crops, the majority of which were in flowering and ripening stages.
According to Agriculture Department officials, over 18,826 acres of maize were damaged in the erstwhile Khammam district alone, farmed by approximately 1,930 farmers.
J Mariyanna, the horticulture officer in the Kothaguydam district, stated that papaya crops worth Rs 10 lakh were damaged, while chilli and paddy farmers also suffered losses.
In addition to the aforementioned, mango trees were affected in the Madapur village of Ganneruvaram Mandal.
The damage was less severe in the Karimnagar district, where maize and paddy were flattened in several places. Horticulture officer Sunitha stated that the damage in Kohir Mandal is severe.
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Agriculture minister Niranjan Reddy, Education minister Sabitha Indra Reddy, and Rythu Bandhu head Rajeshwar Reddy took off from Begumpet Airport to survey the affected cultivated areas in Vikarabad district.
The minister reminded farmers that scientists have been advising them to harvest their Rabi crop a month in advance to avoid being damaged by hailstorms, a situation that occurs every March and April.
Niranjan Reddy went on to say that farmers in Nizamabad, Kamareddy, Bodhan, and Suryapet have been following the advice of scientists about advancing their crop cycle by a month and that in all workshops farmers were informed the same by agricultural officials.
“Cabbage, onion, maize, watermelon and capsicum crops were largely damaged in the 13 villages under the Mominpet and Marpally mandals of the Vikarabad district by the hailstorm,” added the minister.
Interestingly, Niranjan Reddy said that he was yet to receive reports of crop damage in other parts of the state.
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