Rajahmundry, July 7th: Agricultural works has picked up momentum in both East and West Godavari districts, following continuous drizzle for the last few days. Farmers are busy raising paddy nurseries to take up transplantation in a few days. Paddy nurseries were raised to the tune of 65 per cent of the total requirement as of today. In East Godavari paddy is raised over about 2.40 lakh hectare of the total cultivation area of 2.67 lakh hectares.
If the same climate conditions prevail in the district, farmers will begin transplantation probably from July 20 onwards. Though there is deficit rainfall at present, with the incessant drizzle during last few days, farmers are hopeful of going ahead with works and are expecting yield ranging between 35 to 40 bags of paddy per acre. Authorities are keeping fertilizer stock ready and about 1.50 lakh metric tonne of fertilizers are estimated to be required for the Kharif. For July 26,000 metric tones fertilizers are kept ready.
Kakinada, July 7th: The East Godavari district administration is planning to start a home exclusively for the HIV positive children. This was announced by the district collector, Mr. Gopala Krishna Dwevedi at a review meeting held at collectorate on Tuesday. Officials belonging to AIDS (Acquired Im...
Hyderabad, July 8th: The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) has issued notices to 392 B.Ed colleges in the state for violating norms related to infrastructure, faculty and fixed deposit. There are a total of 610 B.Ed colleges in the state and most of them are found to be lacking in basic...
Hyderabad, July 8th: Due to scanty rainfall and decrease in the production this year, the prices of the pulses in the state has raised drastically. While a kilogram of red gram costs as much as Rs 85 in the open market, green gram is sold for Rs 62 a kg and black gram for Rs 56 a kg. Even the humbl...
Kakinada, July 8th: The East Godavari welfare department has distributed post metric scholarship and fee reimbursement to the tune of Rs 47 crore in the district pertaining to academic year of 2008-09. Of this total, Rs 18.92 crore is for scholarship and Rs 27.17 crore is for fee reimbursement. Whi...
Kakinada, July 8th: A review meeting was organized to plan for the effective implementation of the traffic rules and control of accidents along the stretch in district in NH 214 and NH 5. The meeting was organized at the district police office on Wednesday with the superintendent of police, Mr. Y. ...
Kakinada, July 8th: Members of women’s self help groups (SHGs) in the state will be covered under the Total Financial Inclusion (TFI) in the next three years. A decision to this effect will be taken at the SLBC (state level bankers committee) meeting to be conducted on July 13. Under this pro...
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