A man along with his children travels to collect a few pots of water from a borewell at Yerragondapalem in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh. This is not the story of just one farmer in Anantapur district. Now all that he is left with are four acres and six borewells, all of which are dry. As the area under tank irrigation dropped, the area under borewell irrigation rose from 0.01% to around 53% in 2006 and up to 65% by 2012. Ramachandraiah, a farmer of Danampally village in Sangareddy district, has cultivated his two acres of land for the first time.

Source: The Hindu April 27, 2017 08:35 UTC