Hyderabad: There is significant improvement in raising crops across Telangana thanks to the recent heavy rain, which helped increase storage in irrigation projects.
According to the latest report of the Telangana Agriculture Department, all the ten districts are now categorised as having received ‘normal’ rain as on September 14.
As per norms of computing, normal is plus or minus 19 per cent. Against the norm of 649 mm during the southwest monsoon, the state received 654 mm by September 14. It was 534 mm last year.
The total area sown in the state reached 37.18 lakh hectares, against the norm of 43.43 lakh hectares, under areas covered by assured irrigation sources and those depending on rain.
According to agriculture department principal secretary C. Pardhasarathy, more areas are now being sown after the recent rains and due to increased storage levels at irrigation projects.
Irrigation minister, T. Harish Rao said that due to increased inflows in Singur dam, the government would release water to Singur, Nizamsagar and Ghanpur this year to help farmers raise crops. He said that even under Sriramsagar Project he was hopeful of raising paddy transplantations on six lakh acres.
