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Farmers cultivating adust crops nether the Nagarjuna Sagar Left Canal person urged the State authorities to unafraid the contiguous merchandise of h2o from Telangana to avert terrible harvest losses.
A delegation of the Nagarjuna Sagar Left Canal Project Committee met Water Resources Minister Nimmala Ramanaidu astatine his campy bureau successful Vijayawada connected Friday and submitted a memorandum highlighting the urgent situation.
Led by committee president Kota Veerababu and vice-chairman Alla Venkata Gopala Krishna Rao, the delegation said farmers successful the 3rd zone, covering Nuzvid, Gannavaram, Mylavaram, Tiruvuru and Nandigama constituencies, had raised maize, chilli and different adust crops connected astir 80,000 acres this season, depending connected Nagarjuna Sagar waters.
Though the Krishna River Management Board reportedly issued merchandise orders from January, lone astir 3 TMC of the allotted 14 TMC reached the zone, they said, resulting successful withering of crops and groundwater levels falling.
The committee demanded the merchandise of 1,800 cusecs of h2o for 15 days up to the Andhra Pradesh border. It besides sought afloat proviso to subdivision canals, filling of vacant canal unit posts, and merchandise of O&M grants. The Minister assured punctual coordination with Telangana officials.
