Hyderabad, July 27 -- The farmers across Telangana are suffering due to a shortage of urea in the present Kharif season, the evidence of which, could be seen in the long queues in front of the Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS) in the state.

The shortage is more visible in the undivided Khammam district, where 50 percent of the farmers have gone for seed broadcasting method for sowing paddy earlier than other regions, expecting early monsoons this year.

Though the farmers' organisations are pointing their fingers at the Centre, for reducing the supply of fertilisers this Kharif season, there are more dimensions to the problem.

Shortage of 2 lakh tonne urea in Kharif

According to Ramesh Madineni, state vice-president of ...