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HYDERABAD
Date farmers from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh person urged some State governments to present a dedicated harvest security strategy for day plantations, alongside incentives, selling support, and concern successful processing industries.
At a property league attended by cultivators from Ramayampet, Anantapur, Guntakal, Yacharam, Nalgonda, and Sangareddy, Adviser to Society for Political Empowerment and Actionable Knowledge (SPEAK) Anne Satyanarayana highlighted the increasing designation of dates from the Telugu States for their superior taste, earthy ripening, and nutritional value.
The farmers explained that dates harvested astatine the semi‑ripened Khalal signifier proceed to ripen people aft harvest, offering consumers fantabulous flavour and texture. Compared to dates from different regions, those grown locally were said to person amended sweetness and ripening characteristics, making them highly preferred. They besides emphasised the wellness benefits of dates, affluent successful potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron, fiber, Vitamin B‑complex, Vitamin C, and antioxidants.
They stressed that day cultivation could go a large income root if backed by authorities support. They appealed for acold retention facilities, selling promotion, export assistance, and encouragement of value‑added products specified arsenic day syrup, sugar, paste, chocolates, and vigor bars. Recognising day farming arsenic a peculiar horticultural crop, they argued, would not lone heighten husbandman incomes but besides make agrarian employment done processing, packaging, and exports.
