Hyderabad, March 10 -- Irrigation minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy has directed the district collectors and officials of power, irrigation and agriculture to monitor the irrigation and ground water situation prevailing in the districts, and instructed them to save the standing Rabi crops for the next fifteen days on a daily basis.

He, along with agriculture minister Tummala Nageshwara Rao and chief secretary A Santhi Kumari held a video conference with all the district collectors and took stock of the situation on Monday, March 10.

The minister stated that there was enough water in the reservoirs and the power situation in the state was also fine.

He said that the total area under cultivation in Rabi 2024-25 was in 73.16 lakh acres, of whi...