Katakam Gangaiah at tank in Yapalguda |
This Kharif season, some of the farmers cultivated
paddy in their agriculture lands despite scanty rain fall.
Mission Kakatiya managed to bring in some positive results
though the tank revival works were not up to the expectations due to many
loopholes in the procedures, officials and contractors indulging in corrupt
practices in taking up tank revival works. It overall impact, however, can be measured
only after four year’s time.
The tanks revived with de-siltation and
strengthening bund saw increased water storage capacity which has helped
mitigate the effects of the deficit rainfall this monsoon.
Such tanks are
contributing a lot to the raise in the ayacut under newly revived tanks under Mission
Kakatiya.
Katakam Gangaiah of Yapalguda in Adilabad was seen
in cultivating paddy in his three acre land and seemed confident of being able
to cultivate cotton in the Rabi with Komatikunta tank revived recently to store
enough rainwater. All this on account of Mission Kakatiya.
‘Last Karif season saw no cultivation of paddy due
to drought condition and not enough water in the tank but things have changed a
lot with the revival of the tank in the summer’, said Gangaiah.
The agriculture laborers of Khanapur colony of the
Adilabad, planting paddy in Gangaiah’s land, expressed happiness over getting
work in this agriculture season unlike last one.
On the other hand, youth and middle- aged men flock
to Komatikunta tank for fishing these days as there was good water in the tank
after its revival under Mission Kakatiya.
At the same time, many birds are visiting
Komatikunta tank these days for insects and fish and it was also seen some of
the birds set up nests on the trees around the tank and forest plantation.
No comments:
Post a Comment