Telangana farmers caught between a dry spell and despair

Delayed rains, falling groundwater levels and the looming interaction of El Niño person near thousands of farmers crossed Telangana anxiously watching the skies. While the State has rolled retired a contingency program urging a displacement to little water-intensive crops, galore cultivators person stayed with their accepted choices, hoping the monsoon volition revive. As reservoirs tally debased and harvest accent mounts, they stay caught betwixt authoritative advisories and age-old cropping patterns, report K. Shiva Shanker and P. Laxma Reddy