HYDERABAD: Vegetable cultivation has been badly hit in Ranga Reddy district close to Hyderabad due to heavy rains triggred by cyclone Gulab, officials said, predicting a supplies of fresh stock vegetables to the city.
Officials have estimated damage in 768 acres of area due to the heavy rains in recent days.
However, it has also been made clear that the entire damage cannot be attributed to rains alone.
The crops that have got affected, especially vegetables are tomato, beans, cabbage, cucumber, brinjal, capsicum, leafy vegetables, cauliflower, beetroot, carrot, gourds, chilli, onion, flowers like chrysanthemum, and rose, and fruits like guava and custard apple.
Authorities said the damage was reported from Farooqnagar and Chowdergudem of Shadnagar mandal, Chevella and Moinabad of Chevella mandal, Kandukur and Maheshwaram in Maheshwaram, Yacharam, Manchal and Ibrahimpatnam in Ibrahimpatnam mandal. In Ibrahimpatnam mandal, the damage was in 190 acres, in Maheshwaram in 157 acres and up to 83 acres in Shadnagar mandal.
“This crop damage report is majorly due to crop inundation condition,” district horticulture and sericulture officer, Ranga Reddy district, N Sunanda Rani said. “If there is no rain for the next couple of days, we can hope to revive the crop as much as it can be revived,” she said. Farmers have been asked to remove the water from the fields.
While about 20 per cent of vegetables cultivated in the district are consumed in Ranga Reddy itself, the rest of it is supplied to the city.
