Summary:
Scanty rainfall under the influence of North-East monsoon and during the winter season has resulted in crops suffering from moisture stress in Kurnool and Anantapur. Cash cropsThe two cash crops -- chillies and tobacco -- were also entering the flowering stage. Officials of the Agriculture Department said that blackgram and groundnut crop in Kurnool district that were either in the vegetative or the sensitive flowering stage were suffering from moisture stress. The amount of water available in the important major reservoirs is Srisailam 103.4 tmcft, Nagarjuna Sagar 114.6 tmcft and Pulichintala 0.5 tmcft. “Paddy sown in rabi will require at least two more wettings..