AGRICULTURE

AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT – WANAPARTHY DISTRICT

Brief Introduction:

Wanaparthy District was formed and operated from 10-10-2016 as per the State Govt. of Telangana orders. Wanaparthy district is located between 16° 36’ latitude and 78° 06’ longitude. The district consists of 3 ADA ® Division with 15Mandals, 72 Clusters, and 228 Villages. Agriculture is the main occupation of the people in the district. About 75% of the total workers are engaged in agriculture. The main crops grown in the district are Paddy, Groundnut, Jowar, Maize, Red gram, Castor, Cotton, and Chilies.  A total area of 3,42,484 Acres has been cultivated during Vanakalam 2025 and 2,82,367 Acres has been cultivated during Yasangi 2025 under different crops.

Soils: Major portion of the land is covered by Red sandy and Sandy loam Soils (89%) which have got the characteristic feature of less water retentive capacity, and most of the rainwater goes as runoff.

The district has got 3 types of soils viz.

• Red Sandy Soils                         47 %   (52859 Ha)
• Sandy loam Soils                       42 %   (47326 Ha)
• Black Cotton Soils                     11 %   (13475 Ha)

Agro-Climatic Situation:

The district comes under Southern Telangana Zone:

Schemes & Activities in the Department of Agriculture, Wanaparthy District, TS:

1. Rythu Bharosa Scheme (AISS):

Telangana Government has proposed a new scheme for providing investment support to Agriculture and Horticulture crops by way of a grant @ Rs.6000/- per Acre per Farmer in each season (Kharif& Rabi) for the purchase of inputs like Seeds, Fertilizers, Pesticides, towards Labour and other Investments in the field operations of farmers choice for the crop season.

2. Rythu Bhima (Farmers Group Life Insurance Scheme):

Telangana Government decided to implement the prestigious scheme of “RythuBandhu Group Life Insurance Scheme for Farmers” for the welfare of the farming community in the State. The main objective of the scheme is to provide immediate and adequate financial relief to bereaved family members/dependents of the farmer in case of his/her death due to any reason. The majority of the farmers are small and marginal farmers and farming is the sole source of livelihood to them. In the event of the death of the bread earner, the dependent family members will land in distress due to financial problems. The sum assured is Rs 5,00,000/- payable to the Nominee designated by the insured farmer. Eligible farmer age group is 18-59 years.

3. PM KISAN:

Scheme Objective & Benefits:

With a view to providing income support to all landholding farmers’ families in the country, having cultivable land, the Central Government has implemented a Central Sector Scheme, namely, “Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN)”. The scheme aims to supplement the financial needs of all landholding farmers’ families in procuring various inputs to ensure proper crop health and appropriate yields, commensurate with the anticipated farm income as well as for domestic needs. Under the Scheme, an amount of Rs.6000/- per year (in 3 installments) is released by the Central Government online directly into the bank accounts of the eligible farmers under Direct Benefit Transfer mode, subject to certain exclusions.

Exclusions:

The following categories of beneficiaries of higher economic status shall not be eligible for benefits under the scheme:

(a) All Institutional Land holders; and

(b) Farmer families in which one or more of its members belong to the following categories:

• Former and present holders of constitutional posts
• Former and present Ministers / State Ministers and former/present Members of Lok Sabha / Rajya Sabha / State Legislative Assemblies / State Legislative Councils, former and present Mayors of Municipal Corporations, former and present Chairpersons of District Panchayats.
• All serving or retired officers and employees of Central / State Government Ministries / Offices / Departments and their field units, Central or State PSEs, and Attached offices / Autonomous Institutions under the Government as well as regular 3 employees of the Local Bodies (Excluding Multi Tasking Staff / Class IV / Group D employees)
• All superannuated/retired pensioners whose monthly pension is Rs.10,000/- or more (Excluding Multi Tasking Staff / Class IV / Group D employees)
• All Persons who paid Income Tax in the last assessment year.
• Professionals like Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, Chartered Accountants, and Architects are registered with Professional bodies and carry out their profession by undertaking practices.
• In case of new beneficiaries being uploaded on the PM-KISAN Portal, all land-holding farmers’ families who are Non-resident Indians (NRIs) in terms of the provisions of the Income Tax Act, 1961 shall be excluded from any benefit under the Scheme.

4. Online Crop Booking:

The objective of this program is for the AEO of the cluster to register the area sown by the farmers in the online portal duly visiting each farmer field survey number-wise (both Agriculture and Horticulture crops). After registering the crop in the portal the farmer will get an SMS to their registered number for confirmation. At the time of marketing, the farmer will get sown certificate to sell their produce to the government agencies such as MARKFED, NAFED, CCI, etc based on the areas registered in the portal.

5. Soil Health Card Scheme (SHC):

 “National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) will be implemented during the 12th Plan with the following objectives

• To make agriculture more productive, sustainable, and climate resilient;
• To conserve natural resources;
• To adopt comprehensive soil health management practices
• To optimize utilization of water resources; etc.

“Soil Health Management (SHM) is one of the most important interventions under NMSA, SHM aims at promoting Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) through judicious use of chemical fertilizers including secondary and micronutrients in conjunction with organic manures and bio-fertilizers for improving soil health and its productivity; strengthening of soil and fertilizer testing facilities to provide soil test based recommendations to farmers for improving soil fertility; ensuring quality control requirements of fertilizers, bio-fertilizers and organic fertilizers under Fertilizer Control Order, 1985; up gradation of skill and knowledge of soil testing laboratory staff, extension staff and farmers through training and demonstrations; promoting organic farming practices, etc.

6. National Food Security & Nutrition Mission (NFSNM):

• The National Food Security Mission (NFSM) has been renamed as National Food Security & Nutrition Mission (NFSNM) and has been brought under KrishonnattiYojana (KY) during FY 2025-26.

• The NFSNM is now having overall seven components namely: –

1. 1. NFSNM-Rice.
   2. NFSNM-Wheat.
   3. NFSNM-Pulses.
   4. NFSNM-Coarse Cereals (Maize & Barley).
   5. NFSNM-Sub Mission on Nutri Cereals (Shree Anna).
   6. NFSNM-Commercial Crops.
   7. NFSNM-Seed Components (erstwhile Sub-Mission for Seed and Planting Material – SMSP).

Objectives:

The mission is being implemented with the following objectives: –

1. Increasing production of Rice, Wheat, Pulses, Coarse Cereals (Maize & Barley), Commercial Crops (Cotton, Jute & Sugarcane) and Nutri-Cereals (Shree Anna) through area expansion, adoption of different cropping patterns and productivity enhancement in a sustainable manner.
2. Restoring soil fertility and productivity at farm level.
3. Enhancing farm level economy to enhance farmer’s income.
4. Enhancing post-harvest value addition at the farm gate for better price realization to farmers through efficient market linkages.
5. Enhancing the Seed Replacement Rate (SRR) and Varietal Replacement Rate (VRR).
6. Improving the infrastructure of the Seed Sector in the country.

7. Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA):

The Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA) Scheme is in implementation inWanaparthy with 60:40 central and state share.

Objectives of the Programme:

• To develop an efficient, effective, demand-driven, research-integrated, and financially sustainable public extension system.
• To revitalize the Agricultural technology generation assessment refinement and Dissemination systems.
• Reforming public Sector Extension, promoting the private sector to effectively complement, supplement, and whatever possible to substitute public extension.
• Augmenting media and Information Technology support for the extension.
• Mainstreaming Gender concerns in extension.
• Capacity Building skill up-gradation of farmers and extension functionaries.
• Increase the Quality and type of technologies being disseminated by the extension system.
• Strengthen Research-Extension- farmer (REF) Linkages.

8. Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses (MANP):

Government of India has sanctioned a new mission namely “Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses” as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme “Mission for Atmanirbharta in pulses” for six year period i.e., from 2025-26 to 2030-31 subsuming the Pulses Component of the National Food Security and Nutrition Mission.

Objectives:

The mission is being implemented with the following objectives: –

1. Enhancing pulses production with a special focus on Tur, Urad
2. Promoting production and availability of climate resilient seeds for farmers
3. Increasing area under pulses cultivation
4. Promoting post-harvest storage and management technology
5. Assured 100% Procurement of Tur, Urad, Masoor by NCCF & NAFED
6. Assured procurement of other pulses as per the norms of Price Support Scheme (PSS) under PM-AASHA
7. Enhancing protein content

9. Farm Mechanization – Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM):

The Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM) will be implemented as a component of RashtriyaKishiVikasYojana (RKVY) with the following objectives and guidelines described here under

Objectives:

The mission is being implemented with the following objectives

1. Increasing the reach of farm mechanization to small and marginal farmers and to the regions where availability of farm power is low.
2. Promoting Custom Hiring Services of agriculture machines to offset the adverse economies of scale arising due to small landholding and high-cost individual ownership.
3. Creating awareness among stack holders through demonstration, capacity building activities and differentiated information, education and communication strategy.

10. National Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF):

10 Clusters in 9 mandals during 2025-2026 year and 2 clusters in 2mandals selected during the 2026-27 year in the district for implementation of the scheme in the district. 125 farmers from each cluster were identified. KrishiSakhis are selected @2 for each cluster (one mandal) who will assist farmers implementing Natural farming in their fields.  Center for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA) is identified as implementing organization. Bio Resource Centres (BRCs) have been identified in 8 locations for supply of inputs to identified farmers under the scheme. NMNF will be implemented in  the district for two years. Total 1500 farmers selected under NMNF scheme during 2025-27.

11. Farmer Registry:

The main objective of Farmer Registry is to generate single ID for each farmer for getting benefits of all central government schemes like PM-KISAN, Kisan Credit Cards, Urea bookingetc..Registrationis under progress through AEOs,MeeSeva Centres and Common service Centers (CSC).

12. RythuNestham Programme:

In Wanaparthy District, 72 RythuVedikas have been constructed and 44 VC units have been installed. Every Tuesday, the RythuNestham programme is conducted, facilitating farmer–scientist interaction where field-level problems and crop cultivation-related doubts are addressed by agricultural experts. These RythuVedikas are also being utilized for agricultural trainings, awareness programmes, meetings and other departmental activities, providing farmers with easy access to professional and technical guidance.

13. Digital Crop Survey – (DCS):

The Government wants to have a clear picture of the crops sown and the type of irrigation adopted for the same across all the farmlands in the state. The vision of the project is to be the means to create one single, Verified source of truth for Farmer and Crop data in the state that can be Utilized by multiple departments and other agents in the eco-system (such as Banks, Insurance agencies etc). This will ensure consistency in records across all databases like Parihara, RTC, Samrakhshane, etc. The goal is to ensure that all the systems have access to accurate & up-to-date Farmer & crop data in a timely manner

This digital registration is crucial for several reasons:

• Paddy and Cotton & Other Procurements: Farmers who wish to sell their paddy at Minimum Support Price (MSP) at government procurement centers, or their cotton to the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), must have their crop details registered. The government will not purchase produce from farmers who have not completed the booking process.
• Other Government Aid: Accurate crop data will help the government in the efficient distribution of subsidies, seeds, and fertilizers. It will also facilitate quick and fair compensation for crop damage caused by natural calamities.

DCS Summery:

 Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India, has initiated the implementation of crop survey to gather and collate updated data regarding the agricultural land and activity in the country to enable seamless benefit delivery to farmers. To capture the details of crops being grown by the farmers, Agri-stack provides a platform to the department official called as, Crop Survey System. Crop Survey System enables capture of crop details for each farmland plot or survey number, from within the boundary of the plot or survey number. The Crop Survey Application has two major types of user interfaces – web portal and mobile app. The Mobile App is to be used by Surveyors, Verifiers, and Farmers for performing crop survey related activities on the field. The Web Portal enables user management, allocation of roles, verification and configuration of the Web Portal as per the needs of State Government so as to make suitable changes in the modalities of crop survey, as per State requirements.

Advantages of Digital Crop Survey:

Use Cases Near real Time Crop Area Estimation

1. Crop Planning & Crop Diversification
2. Customized Advisories & Interventions
3. Estimation of fund requirement for MSP Operations
4. Accurate Premium Calculation in Crop Insurance Schemes by identifying true Insurer
5. planning of Procurement Centres in advance
6. Easy Access to Credit through Jan Samarth
7. Monitoring of various Crop related Schemes

The following staff Phone numbers office of the Agriculture Department, Wanaparthy District, TS: