Rain lashed several parts of the district on Tuesday night and brought relief to people who suffered from the hot weather all these days. However, the rain was of little use to farmers as it did not help them undertake sowing activity immediately.
Low-lying areas in the town were inundated with the rain lasting a couple of hours. Ironically, there was no rain in Bodhan located just 30 km from here and also in some areas in Kamareddy revenue division. Navipet mandal received the highest rainfall of 45 mm followed by Gandhari 36 mm. The least rainfall (2.3 mm) was recorded at Biknoor and Domakonda.
“Of the 36 mandals 30 mandals witnessed rain and on an average 18.6 mm rainfall was recorded in the district. If this continues for the next couple of days it will help activate sowing. Soyabean was sown in 46,000 hectares of which the seedlings dried up in 35,000 hectares, while maize sowed in all the 16,000 hectares went dry due to the long dry spell,” according to K. Narasimha, Joint Director of Agriculture.
