Hyderabad: Irrigation minister N Uttam Kumar on Sunday stated that the Telangana farmers cultivated a file quantity of paddy within the current Yasangi, which is unprecedented in India’s historical past. He accused BRS MLA T. Harish Rao of constructing false statements on paddy cultivation and manufacturing, irrigation tasks and water provide
He stated the BRS had peddled such lies even earlier than the Yasangi season. Even then, they made devious makes an attempt to create panic among the many farmers.
Within the final monsoon, farmers cultivated paddy on 66.7 lakh acres and harvested 153.5 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of paddy. “If paddy is cultivated on 60 lakh acres in Yasangi, then Telangana farmers have the credit score of attaining a yield of 130 lakh metric tonnes of paddy. The file of attaining 283 lakh metric tonnes of paddy in a single 12 months was achieved beneath the management of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy throughout the Congress authorities.”
“The Medigadda barrage has collapsed because of the incompetence, negligence and mismanagement of the BRS. The Annaram and Sundilla barrages are additionally nonetheless in a harmful situation. The Nationwide Dam Security Authority has discovered fault with the development of Medigadda utilizing secant recordsdata know-how. Like Medigadda, the Annaram and Sundilla barrages have develop into harmful as a result of they had been constructed utilizing the identical secant recordsdata basis know-how,” the minister alleged.
Uttam Kumar Reddy stated that the Kalwakurthy pumps are switched on yearly on the finish of July or on the primary of August to supply water to the monsoon crops. The identical system shall be carried out this time additionally. “Farmers needn’t doubt that Kalwakurthy lifts had been switched on on August 11 in 2019, August 31 in 2020, August 15 in 2021, July 13 in 2022, and August 6 in 2023. Final 12 months, we switched on on July 27.”
The minister stated all of the irrigation tasks and ayacut plans shall be ready based mostly on the selections taken within the State Stage Committee for Built-in Water Planning and Administration assembly to be held on July 11.
He additionally stated that each one the conspiracies of the then BRS authorities behind the unlawful switch of Krishna waters to Andhra Pradesh have already been uncovered. Throughout their rule, the capability of Pothireddypadu was greater than doubled to 88,000 cusecs. BRS secretly supported the conspiracy to divert about eight to 10 TMCs of water per day from Rayalaseema Elevate Scheme and Muchumarri to Andhra Pradesh.
