Former Shadnagar MLA Anjaiah Yadav toured drying paddy fields in several villages of Farooqnagar mandal on Thursday, and the farmers he met had one clear message: their crops are dying and they need help now.
Yadav walked through the fields in the Shadnagar constituency and spoke with farmers whose crops had already withered. The farmers showed him the dead and dying plants and explained their hardship in their own words. The visit was reported on November 5, 2026.
Fields Turning Brown Across the Region
The farmers described a season that has gone wrong from the start. Rain has failed to arrive in the amounts farmers need, and the crops have been hit hard by the El Nino effect. Yadav pointed out that the dry fields he saw are not an isolated case. Similar scenes of parched farmland are visible across the state.
Power cuts and a shortage of irrigation water have added to the damage. Without steady electricity for pumps and without water in canals and borewells, farmers have had no way to keep their paddy alive. For many of them, the fields are the only source of income, and the damage has arrived at the worst possible moment.
A Family That Lives Hand to Mouth
One farming family told Yadav that they live on what they earn each day. They had worked the land through long months of labour, planting paddy with the hope of a harvest that would carry them through the year. Now the rice crop has dried out, and the family says it has nothing to fall back on.
The farmer’s appeal to the government was direct. He said the government must support them without fail. He added that even if the Rythu Bandhu investment support had been released on time, it would have been some help during this crisis. The complaint about timing was not a side note. For farmers already short of cash, a delayed payment can mean the difference between buying seed, fertilizer or diesel for pumps and falling deeper into debt.
If the government had at least given Rythu Bandhu on time, it would have been some help to us.
Why the Shadnagar Story Matters Beyond One Constituency
For Telangana readers, this is not a distant story. Shadnagar and Farooqnagar are part of the Rangareddy district belt, where paddy cultivation is a major livelihood. When a crop fails here, the impact runs through families, village shops, labour markets and local credit. The farmers Yadav met are the people who feed their households from the land, and their losses show how a single season of poor rain and power trouble can wipe out months of work.
The reports from Farooqnagar are also a reminder that drought stress does not stay confined to the fields. Farmers who lose their crop often struggle to repay loans and face pressure to find work elsewhere. That is why the call for government support has urgency beyond the immediate visit.
The Political Charge
Yadav framed the crisis as a failure of the current state administration. He said the drying crops, the power cuts and the lack of irrigation water are showing up together under the rule of the Congress government. He described the situation as one where farmers are suffering on multiple fronts at once. Those are his words and his criticism, and they reflect the view of the former MLA who visited the villages.
Yadav also urged the government to help the farming family and others like them. His message was simple: relief should reach the farmers who have lost their crops, and it should reach them without delay.
What Farmers Are Asking For
The demands that emerged from the visit were practical. Farmers want the government to recognise the damage to their paddy and to provide support that can help them get through the season. They want the Rythu Bandhu payment to arrive on schedule, because they say it helps them meet the costs of farming. And they want steady power and water so that the crops that remain can be saved where possible.
The visit also drew attention to the human side of agricultural distress. Behind every dried field in Farooqnagar is a family that invested savings, labour and hope into the season. For those families, the question is no longer only about yield. It is about whether they can keep their homes running until the next crop.
What Comes Next
The reporting so far captures a moment of visible hardship, with farmers standing in their fields and pointing at what they have lost. It shows the immediate pressure on families who depend on paddy and the gap between what they expected from the season and what they got. Whether relief reaches these villages will determine how deep the damage runs.
For now, the fields of Farooqnagar stand as evidence of a season that has turned against the farmers who work them. The former MLA has put their pain on record, and the farmers have asked for help that cannot wait much longer.
TL;DR
- Ex-MLA Anjaiah Yadav inspected dried paddy fields in several Farooqnagar mandal villages in Shadnagar constituency.
- Farmers showed him withered crops and said their losses have pushed their families into hardship.
- A farming family said its paddy dried out completely after months of hard labour.
- Farmers blamed poor rain, power cuts and a shortage of irrigation water for the crop failure.
- One farmer said timely Rythu Bandhu support would have offered some relief during the crisis.
- Yadav urged the government to support the affected farmers without delay.
