text: With cultivation of maize, every farmer can earn Rs 20,000 profit from one acre which is impossible with paddy, said Joint director of the agriculture department G Rama Rao.
  Interacting with the District Collector, farmers P Appala Naidu, B Venkatesh and others said that they were incurring heavy losses with the cultivation of paddy every year and this year, on the advice of the officials concerned, they decided to replace the paddy with the ID crop and earned profits.
  They appealed to the District Collector to strive for reasonable price for maize. Agriculture department officials BV Tirumala Rao and Chandra Rao were also present on the occasion.