Agriculture activity is expected to pick up in a couple of days with the onset of monsoon in Vizianagaram district which mostly depends on rains for farming activity in the absence of major rivers. The farmers, who have been eagerly waiting for rains, heaved a sigh of relief with the occurrence of moderate rains in several parts of the district.
Although officials are promoting millets and commercial crops, the farmers are likely to sow paddy in many places. Out of 1, 21,153 hectares of farm land, the paddy is likely to be grown in 93,645 hectares this time too. Maize will be cultivated in 12,250 hectares. Sugarcane may be confined to 4,s504 hectares with the closure of sugar mills in Bhimasingi and Sithanagaram.
