After Ministers, legislators and party leaders of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), Assembly Speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy has joined the ongoing issue of 24×7 free power supply to agriculture sector, on which the Opposition Congress has been alleging that the government has not been supplying uninterrupted supply to farming and just an hour’s supply is enough to wet one-acre crop.
Speaking at farmers meets held in the Rythu Vedikas at Jalalpur and Mesra in Varni mandal in Nizamabad district on Tuesday as part of the BRS call to hold farmers’ meets to discuss the Congress’ view on free power and adopt resolutions against it, Mr. Srinivas Reddy in his capacity as the MLA of Banswada Constituency said the talk of an-hour’s supply enough for watering an acre’s crop was a view of those who do not know about agriculture.
He explained that raising paddy in one acre would require 60 lakh litres of water at an average of 50,000 litres everyday even for 120-day varieties and sought to know from the Congress leaders whether they could pump up 50,000 litres of water in an hour either from a borewell, openwell or any other source such as flowing water (in streams).
