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VIZIANAGARAM:
Vizianagaram District Collector S. Ramsundar Reddy connected Monday (June 22, 2026) said fertiliser allocation would beryllium done online successful the Kharif play to guarantee capable proviso successful accordance with the grade of the farmers’ landholding.
Speaking to The Hindu here, helium said the strategy would guarantee transparency successful allocation and debar imaginable chaos astatine fertiliser organisation points and the branches of the Vizianagaram District Marketing Cooperative Societies.
Normally, the territory requires astir 88,000 tonnes of fertiliser during the Kharif season. The farmers person to registry their names nether E-Panta to get the allocated fertiliser. He said the farmers could bid the allocated quota of fertiliser based connected their requirement.
Mr. Ramsundar Reddy farmers were being advised to prime the close crops, fixed the El Nino impact and the rainfall forecast of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) .He said the authorities had allocated ₹149.84 crore to 2,27,700 farmers nether the PM-Kisan and Annadata Sukhibhava schemes.
Cheepurupalli MLA Kimidi Kala Venkata Rao said the agriculture section had been asked to suggest short-, medium- and semipermanent crops truthful that farmers would get an income done the year.
“The farmers tin utilise h2o supplied done Thotapalli reservoir astatine optimum level though determination is simply a anticipation of driblet successful rainfall owed to the interaction of El nino. The commercialized crops necessitate little h2o quantity compared to paddy. The farmers tin alteration their harvest plans aft taking suggestions from agriculture officials and scientists,” Mr. Venkata Rao said.
