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HYDERABAD
Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao has cautioned farmers against stubble burning, highlighting its adverse interaction connected ungraded prime and nutrition. He besides asked the section officials to amended farmers connected it.
Speaking astatine the Rythu Nestham programme from Hyderabad connected Tuesday, helium besides explained to the farmers astir the imaginable interaction of El Nino, impending problems successful urea supply, ungraded extortion and enactment of crops based connected ungraded quality. He stated that a conception of farmers were resorting to stubble farming arsenic portion of preparing their onshore for the adjacent crop.
However, specified an enactment would severely interaction the ungraded wellness and harm the crops. He explained that the integrated worldly successful the precocious layers of ungraded would beryllium wholly destroyed with stubble burning and the earthy nutrients successful the ungraded would beryllium affected. As a result, adjacent fertilizers would not springiness due results.
He said that enactment would beryllium taken against officials acrophobic if specified incidents came to the government’s notice. Stating that the Centre excessively was viewing the substance seriously, Mr. Nageswara Rao said arsenic per the guidelines of the National Green Tribunal, farmers would beryllium penalised if they resorted to stubble burning and explained the interaction of the signifier successful Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh connected the situation and upwind successful New Delhi each year.
On urea supply, helium said the Centre’s cognition was highly disappointing by citing the West Asia struggle arsenic the crushed impacting the imports of urea. At the aforesaid clip the Centre was besides not expanding the urea accumulation successful the state to conscionable the needs. He besides faulted the Centre for not procuring maize, jowar and sunflower to assistance the farming community.
