Revive devoted minor irrigation system with fashionable expertise: Farmers’ Fee

The Telangana Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Fee has really helpful to the State authorities devoted minor irrigation system be re-established with technology-driven items geared toward bettering water-use effectivity.

The Fee submitted a report on minor irrigation to Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Saturday (August 29), making a number of key suggestions for strengthening irrigation infrastructure and bettering agricultural sustainability within the State.

Farmers’ Welfare Fee chairman Kodanda Reddy and members Ramulu Naik, Ram Reddy Gopal Reddy, Gangadhar and M. Bhavani Reddy have been current throughout the assembly.

The Fee really helpful the institution of command-area based mostly administration methods to combine minor and main irrigation assets and guarantee extra environment friendly utilisation of obtainable water. It additionally proposed enactment of a separate Minor Irrigation Act particularly for the safety and administration of tanks within the State.

The Fee referred to as for identification and demarcation of the Full Tank Degree (FTL) boundaries of all tanks, removing of encroachments and efficient safety of the tank areas.

The Fee mentioned restoration and safety of tanks was essential for making certain water safety, stabilising agriculture and bettering rural livelihoods in Telangana. Strengthening conventional water our bodies would assist enhance groundwater availability and supply larger resilience to farmers, it mentioned.

Mr. Revanth Reddy urged that the Fee focus significantly on crop diversification, promotion of horticulture and strengthening of Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs). He emphasised the necessity for measures that may enhance farm incomes and make agriculture extra sustainable.