AGRICULTURE

About Department:

The District Economy is mostly dependent on agriculture sector. The increase in agriculture production and productivity will boost the health of district economy.
The Department of Agriculture as one arm of the government has been established to perform the following functions in the process of harmonizing the farming community.

ACTIVITIES/SCHEMES:

Rythu Bandhu Scheme:

In 2018, The Government of Telangana has proposed a new scheme for providing investment support to Agriculture & Horticulture Crops by way of grant of Rs 5000/- per acre per farmer per season for the purchase of inputs like Seeds, Fertilizers, Pesticides, towards labour and other investments in field operations of farmers’ choice of crop in the season. The updated and purified land record data base in CCLA portal (Dharani) will form the basis for implementing Rythu Bandhu Scheme.

Agriculture Extension officers shall upload the bank details of every farmer in Rythu bandhu Mobile App and after due verification by concerned MAOs/ADAs, the uploaded data shall be freezed by the Commissioner of Agriculture, TS, Hyderabad and the data shall be sent to Treasury where in the amount of grant will be distributed to the farmers through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) (e-kuber platform) in their bank accounts directly.

Rythu Beema Scheme:

It is a Farmers Group Life Insurance Scheme under which the government will provide the insured amount of 5.00 Lakhs INR directly deposited into the designated nominee Bank account within 10 days in case of death of the enrolled farmer due to any cause including natural death.

Subsidy Seeds Distribution:

Every Season the department distributes Seeds like Soybean, Dhaincha, Sunhemp, Paddy, bengal gram, maize, groundnut on subsidized rates for encouraging farmers to take up cultivation of crops that incur less cost of cultivation and are commercially viable in markets.

Crop Booking:

The department has taken up crop booking since 2018 where in, Agriculture Extension Officer of each cluster visits every farmer field in his/her jurisdiction and records the crop sown area on real time basis and upload the data in Rythu Bandhu Mobile App for both vanakalam and yasangi seasons respectively.

Rythu Vedikalu :

The Department has taken up construction of Rythu Vedika in each AEO Cluster (104 No.s) for farmers as they need an exclusive place for meeting and discussing about crops, pricing and other farming related issues and also for accommodating AEO Office, Mini Soil Testing Laboratory therefore facilitating easy access to farmers.

Soybean production:

There is wider growth potential for production of certified seed production at farmer level particularly in Gandhari, Tadwai, Rajampet, Bichkunda, Peddakodupgal, Madnur, Pitlam, Sadashiva Nagar where the predominant soils are black which are highly suitable for Soybean production. Hence there is a need to establish a Soybean Seed Processing unit at Gandhari / Bichkunda and one Soybean Post Processing unit at Kamareddy which will give competitive Market price to the farmers.

Pulses Production:

In Kamareddy and Bichkunda agriculture divisions, where the crops are grown mainly under rain fed condition, is highly suitable for short duration crops like pulses and oilseeds. Here is great potential for taking up pulses as well as Oilseeds like Groundnut and Sunflower production.

Maize production:

In Yellareddy and Kamareddy Agriculture divisions, Maize is a predominant rain fed crop with low production/productivity levels. There is a great scope to increase the productivity with available water resources under micro-irrigation (Drip).

State Seed Farm:

This farm is located in Malthummeda village of Nagareddypet Mandal, which is about 42 Kms from District Headquarters. This Seed Farm is having a land of 324.22 Ha in Sy.No. 838 and 834 of Malthummeda Village. In which 24.28 Ha given to Horticulture Department. In the remaining land of 299.94 Ha only 89 Ha has brought into cultivation with water source of Pocharam Project canal through lift irrigation.

Boppaspally State Seed Farm:

This farm is located in Birkur Mandal, which is 70 Kms from District Headquarters. It is having an area of 199.60 Ha with Cultivable area of 90 Ha. This farm is having irrigation source from Nizamsagar Canal.

If these ( 2 ) Seed Farms develops to the total potentiality, the certified seed can be produced for Paddy and Soybean Crops.

Vaanakalam-2019 Major crop Cultivated area & Production Particulars of Kamareddy District
S.no	Crop	Actual Sown Area in Acres	Productivity Qtls/ acre	Total Production qtls
1	Paddy	210846	23	4849458
2	Maize	88643	24	2127432
3	Jowar	379	4	1516
4	Soyabean	90933	9	818397
5	Cotton	47875	10	478750
6	Black gram	5878	5	29390
7	Green gram	14418	5	72090
8	Redgram	17389	7	121723

Yasangi-2019 Major crop Cultivated area & Production Particulars of Kamareddy District
S.no	Crop	Actual Sown Area in Acres	Productivity Qtls/ acre	Total Production qtls
1	Paddy	185833	25	4645825
2	Maize	37057	30	1111710
3	Jowar	16851	20	337020
4	Wheat	2510	6	15060
5	Bengal gram	73162	7	512134
6	sesamum	520	2.5	1300
7	Safflower	278	3	834

Vaanakalam-2020 Major crop Cultivated area & Expected Production Particulars of Kamareddy District
S.no	Crop	Actual Sown Area in Acres	Productivity Qtls/ acre	Total Production qtls
1	Paddy	243394	22	5354668
2	Maize	33148	19	629812
3	Jowar	286	4	1144
4	Soyabean	84350	7	590450
5	Cotton	57607	9	518463
6	Black gram	10385	3	31155
7	Green gram	15378	3	46134
8	Redgram	24010	8	192080

Vyavasaya Padipantalu A Telugu monthly Journal January 2021(PDF 3MB)

Office Staff Contacts:

S.No.	Name	Designation	Mobile Number	Email Address
1	J Bhagyalakshmi	District Agriculture officer	7288894623	dao-kmr-agri[at]telangana[dot]gov[dot]in
2	Karnam Sunitha	Assistant Director of Agriculture	7288894616	ad3-kmr-agri[at]telangana[dot]gov[dot]in
3	Katari Sameera	Agriculture officer (T)	7288894600	ao-tech2-kmr-agri[at]telangana[dot]gov[dot]in
4	Shanigaram Narsimulu	Agriculture officer (T)	7288894550	ao-tech3-kmr-agri[at]telangana[dot]gov[dot]in
5	Moche Sunitha Rani	Agriculture officer (T)	7288894556	ao-tech4-kmr-agri[at]telangana[dot]gov[dot]in
6	Kantamaraj Krishna Rao	Superintendent	9247826871	supdt-kmr-agri[at]telangana[dot]gov[dot]in
7	Mayavar Kishan	Senior Asstant	9949035439	sa-estt2-kmr-agri[at]telangana[dot]gov[dot]in
8	Anjamma	Senior Asstant	9030481417	sa-accts1-kmr-agri[at]telangana[dot]gov[dot]in
9	Kasam Shiva Kumar	Senior Asstant	9908392861	sa-tech3-kmr-agri[at]telangana[dot]gov[dot]in
10	Lingareddy Dinesh Reddy	Senior Asstant	9491816091	sa-estt1-kmr-agri[at]telangana[dot]gov[dot]in
11	Narala Venkat Reddy	Senior Asstant	9491821402	sa-tech1-kmr-agri[at]telangana[dot]gov[dot]in
12	Madde Sunil Kumar	Junior Asstant	9951541542	ja-tech4-kmr-agri[at]telangana[dot]gov[dot]in
13	Kotagiri Pavan Kumar	Junior Asstant	9949312989	ja-tech6-kmr-agri[at]telangana[dot]gov[dot]in
14	Mohammed Saleem	Typist	9440615081	typ-kmr-agri[at]telangana[dot]gov[dot]in