Mango yield has been low so far and due to lockdown, the king of fruits which may head towards Fruit market in Hyderabad where a sudden spike in supply and low demand could lead to more problems. It’s that time of the year when mangoes are high in demand. Mangoes from across Telangana are going […]
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Shuttered Markets, Missing Labour – Chilli Farmers Brace For A Bitter Harvest In Andhra Pradesh
Crops are still standing in the fields, labour is scarce, and prices have crashed in a dire start to 2020. This time last year M Venkateswara Reddy was a busy man, procuring hundreds of thousands of bags of Guntur’s famous red chillies to export to markets across Asia. In good years, nearly half the red […]
#CoronaVirus Spells Doom For Poultry Farmers In Telangana
Imagine a farmer setting foot in his poultry farm and thousands of chicks swarming up to him in the hope that he will feed them. They have been hungry for days. But he has no feed, and with the little he can find, there is a stampede the moment he throws it to them and […]
Exodus Of Migrant Workers During Lockdown Stuck In Hyderabad
The #CoronaVirus lockdown witnesses major setbacks in normal life. A complete shut down, no work, no food, no shelter makes life horrible to migrant workers in Hyderabad. Past weeks, migrant workers have been facing a lot of trouble because of the lockdown. Thousands of them tried to return home to their families in their respective […]
Farmers Are In ‘Deep Trouble’ After Unseasonal Rains Crop Destruction In Telangana
Telangana farmers are in trouble after unseasonal rains destroyed much of their standing paddy, maize and cotton crops in September and October. Most districts of the state registered a huge rainfall excess in September, which affected paddy, maize and cotton crops. Rainfall has been erratic this year. It was unevenly distributed during the monsoon months. […]
How An ‘Education Minister’ Becomes A ‘Beneficiary’ In ‘Farmer Welfare Scheme’ In Andhra Pradesh?
As the Jagan Mohan Reddy government gears up for the launch of the ‘Rythu Bharosa’ welfare scheme for farmers on October 15, an embarrassing blunder came to light. The name of Education Minister Adimulapu Suresh was found to have been included in the list of beneficiaries of the scheme from Ganapavaram village in Prakasam district. […]
Over 1000 Farmer Suicides Occured In KCR Regime In Telangana!
More than 1,000 farmers had committed suicide in Telangana in the last four years of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi regime, going by the statistics provided by the government itself. On August 1, the TRS government issued a GO releasing Rs 14.58 crore towards payment of ex-gratia to families of 243 farmers who had committed suicide […]
How Cotton Farming Produced ‘Toxic Landscape’ in Telugu States?
As scenario visible in Idyllic villages, lush crops swaying gently in the breeze, people contentedly going about their daily chores – this scene has been a staple of many Indian films but it is barely real. For farmers in Telangana growing genetically engineered cotton in particular, this could not be farther from their actual lives. […]
Why All The ‘Farmers’ In Krishna District Of Andhra Pradesh ‘Keeping Away’ From Active Elections?
This poll season, farmers, mostly womenfolk, are forced to confine themselves to agricultural fields, keeping away from the election fever and campaign. Farmers across the Krishna district are now busy harvesting black gram, maize and post-harvesting activities of paddy that was stored in the open in the fields. Women contribute a major share of work in […]
The ‘Dwindling Farmlands’ Of Anantapur District In Andhra Pradesh
Few districts can demonstrate how droughts can break farmers’ backs as Anantapur. The Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh anyway throws up a challenging landscape to agriculturists. Even among those four southern districts Anantapur has historically been the worst off.The district has been drought-prone for more than a century, rainfall data shows. The situation has only […]