Lack of rains hit not only farmers, but also the Haritha Haram programme.
The programme which commenced on July 3 across the State had witnessed slow progress as there was dry spell for too long time forcing the officials to postpone the programme till a good rain was there.
The first day of the programme had witnessed plantation of 74,102 saplings in the district
A total of 2,34,400 sapling were planted in the district so far as on Monday, while about 33 lakh pits were dug waiting for rains.
Surprisingly, there are three mandals where the programme was not taken up at all. These mandals, include Munipally, Regode and Chinnakodur. While 588 saplings were planted in Tekmal mandal, followed by 500 saplings in Kondapur mandal and 280 saplings planted in Chegunta mandal.
Highest number of sapling plantation was registered at Kondapaka (30,555), Jinnaram (14,890), Sangareddy (11,807) and Gajwel (11,125).
No planting had taken place at Siddipet madal since July 11, as per the abstract prepared by the district administration. From July 11 to July 20, only 22,067 saplings were planted across the district with July 14 witnessing 1,539 sapling plantation followed by 7,624 (July 15), 1,453 (July 16), 3,295 (July 17) and 1,200 (July 20). No planting took place on July 18 and 19. Incidentally, both the days were government holidays.
33 lakh pits
As far as pits were concerned, it was reported that 33 lakh pits were dug so far for taking up Harita Haram. Munipally, Regod and Chinnakodur mandals where the programme was not yet commenced registered digging of 63,495 pits, 49,660 pits and 1,41,778 pits respectively. Highest number of pits were dug at Zaheerabad (1,00,367), Kohir (,122,051), Raikod (,1,31,616), Ramayampet (1,05,365), Kowdipally (1,97,821) Gajwel (1,42,550), Mulugu (1,85,296) and Nanganoor (1,443,243).
“We are waiting for rains. It was not possible to save all the saplings unless there are sufficient rains. Watering all the plants is not possible. However, we are getting ready with pits so that plantation can be taken up once good rains are there,” said an official.
