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Sowing delayed due to rains

— PHOTO: S. HARPAL SINGH

Getting ready:Farmers apply basal dose of fertilizer before sowing in their field near Mutnoor in Indervelli mandal in Adilabad on Monday.

ADILABAD: The number of farmers taking up basal application of fertilisers in their fields this season in the Adilabad district has gone up.

Healthy practice

This agricultural practice is considered healthy and the continuing dry spell has given sufficient time before sowing operations are undertaken.

B. Ramakanth, a progressive farmer from Tosham in the Gudihatnoor mandal says the basal application will help in proper land preparation.

He says it will aid germination of seeds even if the dry spell gets prolonged.

Sowing operations have been put on hold across the district as rainfall plays truant. Since June 1 the Adilabad district has recorded just 6.2 mm of rainfall against a normal of about 130 mm until Monday.

The farmers who had sowed on time could expect to lose seeds if there is no rain in the next two or three days. About 5 per cent of farmers in the district have sown seeds anticipating good and timely monsoon.

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