Agriculture is a biological industry, and in India, even after six decades of planned economic development, it is still a way of life for the country's people. One of the requirements for sustainable agricultural output is the effective use of energy resources in agriculture. The Indian energy-intensive paddy production is to blame for several environmental issues. The current study was conducted in this context to analyse the energy consumption pattern in paddy cultivation across various farm categories and calculate energy use efficiency (EUE) in Telangana. The amount of energy used to cultivate paddy was 47014.69 MJ/ha, and the average energy use was inversely correlated with farm size. Chemical fertilisers were the primary source of energy (42%) and were followed by the use of power for irrigation (36.05%), machine energy (18%), diesel fuel (17%), human labour (1.36%), and FYM (1.11%). The use of chemical, mechanical and electrical energy varied positively with the farm size, while it varied negatively for human and animal labour, seed and FYM.