El Niño impact: Paddy area in Andhra’s Vizianagaram falls from 1 lakh hectares to 20,760

Twenty-four of the district’s 27 mandals record a shortfall, canals in Cheepurupalli dry up for want of releases from Thotapalli, and the joint director asks farmers to shift to crops that need less water

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