Prolonged dry spell hits farmers hard
The Hindu
They were forced to reinvest on seed and labour
Rosaiah is a tenant farmer of this village in Sadasivapet of Sangareddy district. He has taken about 40 acres on lease and sown cotton seed. For each acre of land, he has been paying a lease between ₹12,000 and ₹14,000 per acre. During last week, Roasaiah bought cotton seed again and hired labour to sow them. He lost about ₹ 1.2 lakh as reinvestment for labour and seed. The case of Ch. Ravinder, another farmer from the same village, a landlord himself, was not much different. He is trying to sow the seed where the germination was not there.
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