Tribal farmers of various hamlets in Chintapalli mandal were an excited lot when officials of the Horticulture Department and representatives of NGOs, supply chain companies and banks visited their fields in the Agency areas recently.

Most farmers seemed to be under the impression that more water was needed for the crops to get greater yield. Some of them were using high-water intensive vegetables as an intercrop. The vegetables being grown by the farmers are cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, onion and radish.