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Don’t cultivate paddy this kharif, Andhra Pradesh tells Krishna delta farmers amid water crunch

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Engineer-in-Chief K. Narasimha Murthy said storage in Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar had fallen to critically low levels, and that Pattiseema pumping may last only 60 to 70 days this season against 100 to 120 days earlier; farmers have been advised to switch to dry crops

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