Ministers urge farmers to avoid paddy cultivation during Rabi season

Minister for Minority Welfare NMD Farooq and Roads and Buildings (R&B) Minister B.C. Janardhan Reddy connected Tuesday called for prudential absorption of the Rabi season, urging farmers to debar paddy cultivation and opt alternatively for adust crops. The Ministers were addressing the District Irrigation Advisory Board gathering astatine the Collectorate, chaired by Collector Rajakumari Ganiya.

Minister Farooq said that h2o allocation crossed KC Canal, SRBC and Telugu Ganga ayacuts were reviewed successful detail. They assured that SRBC h2o would beryllium supplied up to the past ayacut, but warned that KC Canal flows would beryllium severely restricted this play owed to replacement works connected Tungabhadra task gates.

As a result, h2o merchandise from 0-150 km successful the KC Canal strategy had been deemed unfeasible, the Minister said. He urged the farmers’ organisations to cooperate, adding that the authorities would escalate immoderate arising issues to the State level. Telugu Ganga ayacut farmers are expected to person h2o until the extremity of March, helium said.

Minister Janardhan Reddy, meanwhile, said that the gross replacement of Tungabhadra project, undertaken successful coordination with Karnataka, was indispensable to forestall larger structural risks successful the future. Temporary hardships were inevitable during large repairs, helium said, adding that the authorities was exploring alternatives specified arsenic reverse pumping.

Collector Rajakumari said the authorities remains committed to husbandman payment and ensuring remunerative prices. She confirmed that SRBC h2o would beryllium released up to the last ayacut and that Telugu Ganga ayacut would person h2o till March 31. She besides informed that 48,000 acres betwixt 0-150 km of the KC Canal would not person h2o due to the fact that of the Tungabhadra gross works, and that reverse pumping to Malyala and Mucchumarri was not feasible this year.

Allagadda MLA Akhilapriya requested h2o up to the tail-end, to which the Collector responded that an further 5 tmcft would marque it feasible. Srisailam MLA Rajasekhar Reddy sought afloat h2o proviso to 23,000 acres via Siddapuram tank, portion Panyam MLA Charita Reddy highlighted harvest losses owed to SRBC flooding and sought extended h2o proviso till April 15. Nandikotkur MLA Jayasurya urged enactment for KC Canal farmers.