In staff andhra-pradesh. The basic problem of agriculture

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The basic problem of agriculture of staff

Water. Now here one third of processed earths is irrigated approximately. That is, only these earths give steady crops. On other areas all depends on favour of monsoonal rains. Only in their low seaside strip drops out more than 1000 millimetres, in other areas of only 500-600 millimetres. Besides the long-awaited monsoon can strongly be late, as happens one year prior to this trip when because of a terrible drought half of crop was lost.

Staff the earth considerable quantity is not processed in general. These are droughty areas of the internal Dean to the West from Eastern Ghats, and also the slopes of low ridge Nallamalaj occupied with a small prickly bush.

In 1963, having curtailed from highway to under construction then to hydraulic engineering complex Nagardzhunasagar, we went through the fruitless not processed earths. It was a sad show. All is burnt out by heat which, appear, has for ever set the barreness seal to extensive plain.

And here we again in these places. As the picture has changed! Continually on our way there were irrigation canals. Tablets informed, that we crossed or the basic channel of hydraulic engineering complex Nagardzhunasagar, or one of its many by-pass channels. Along them checks of rice fields, sugar cane plantations settled down. The bright greens pleased an eye, promised a rich harvest.

Nagardzhunasagar. I remember, how this dam which has partitioned off the river Krishna in deep tesnine, was under construction. It was far from end, but already then it was represented, what it will be a considerable construction. And here now we have seen the huge dam combined from a stone, length of one and a half kilometre and height 124 metres. The dam forms the biggest in Asia an artificial water basin from which two channels depart, irrigating 800 thousand hectares of the earth. There is a building of hydroelectric power station by capacity of 400 megawatt. Units capacity of 110 megawatt already give a current. In Andhra Pradesh are created and are under construction more than one and a half tens other hydraulic engineering constructions.