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District Collector Sumit Kumar connected Monday (June 22, 2026) urged officials from the agriculture and allied departments to undertake intensive consciousness campaigns among farmers regarding measures to mitigate the interaction of El Niño-linked adust upwind patterns. He stressed the value of issuing timely advisories to assistance support crops and livestock from projected rainfall deficits.
He was speaking aft releasing the publicity worldly for the ‘Rythanna! Meekosam’ inaugural astatine the Collectorate successful Chittoor. The Department of Agriculture published the worldly with the nonsubjective of guiding farmers connected harvest planning, h2o conservation, and different precautionary measures during adverse upwind conditions.
Addressing the officials, Mr. Sumit Kumar observed that the India Meteorological Department (IMD) had precocious declared El Niño conditions. “El Niño is associated with a emergence successful oversea aboveground temperatures beyond mean levels that tin power upwind patterns, including rainfall distribution. This accusation should beryllium wide circulated among the farmers to guarantee their preparedness,” the Collector said.
“Below-normal rainfall could pb to drought-like conditions successful parts of the State, and the territory arsenic well, impacting cultivation productivity and putting unit connected the carnal husbandry sector. Officials should beryllium acceptable with contingency plans to marque farmers alert of suitable harvest choices, irrigation management, and methods to conserve disposable water,” helium said.
The Collector instructed agriculture section officials to organise consciousness programmes astatine the colony level and guarantee that farmers person weather-based advisories without delay. “Coordinated enactment by agriculture, horticulture, carnal husbandry, and agrarian improvement departments would beryllium important successful reducing imaginable losses,” helium said.
Joint Collector Adarsh Rajendran, District Revenue Officer K. Mohan Kumar, and Revenue Divisional Officers from Chittoor, Kuppam, Palamaner, and Nagari were besides contiguous astatine the launch.
