Cotton cultivation to rise in Adilabad in Kharif Telangana
2025-05-05 11:01:29
Cotton Acreage to Rise in Adilabad This Kharif
Adilabad: The agriculture department is taking steps to make available cotton seed varieties preferred by farmers in the market for Kharif, to avoid protests. Last year, there were protests in Adilabad district for Rasi 659 cotton seed variety packets. The officials will inform farmers about the stock. Agriculture officials prepared an action plan for Kharif and estimated that cotton crop will be cultivated in 4.40 lakh acres in Adilabad district. The area under cotton cultivation may increase in Kharif.
Farmers had staged protests in Adilabad assembly constituency demanding supply of Rasi 659. The variety was most preferred by farmers, leading to shortage. District officials engaged seed distributors and enquired about the availability of seeds at their stores. Agriculture extension officials will prepare village-wise schedules for cotton seed purchase on any given day to prevent ruckus and unwanted incidents during seed purchase. The officials are going to form committees comprising police, agriculture officials and revenue officials and conduct raids on godowns to prevent seeds from going illegally into the black market and creating artificial shortage. District Agriculture Officer Sridhar Swamy said they have estimated that 11,00,000 cotton seed packets would be required to grow the crop on 4.40 lakh acres in Adilabad district and added that seed distributors would make available 21,60,000 cotton seed packets of different varieties in the market for the benefit of farmers.
