CM tells ryots to go for alternative crops
The Hindu
KCR stops by the roadside to interact with farmers of Pebbair and Kothakota mandals in Gadwal dist.
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has asked farmers with whom he interacted today to go for cultivation of groundnut, cotton, black gram, green gram and bengal gram as an alternative to paddy which the government had decided not to purchase in the present rabi.
He met the farmers at a couple of roadside villages of Pebbair and Kothakota mandals of Gadwal district while returning to Hyderabad in car from Gadwal after calling on the family of a TRS MLA whose father died recently. He saw for himself black gram and groundnut crops of two farmers walking down a little distance from the road.
Instead of depending heavily on paddy and running into problems, Mr. Rao asked the farmers to focus cultivation on crops that have demand in market.