Need for more subsidies for fruits and vegetables’ cultivation: Chinnareddy

Hyderabad

Telangana farmers should execute self-sufficiency successful accumulation of vegetables and milk, thereby gathering the State’s needs and expanding export opportunities, said Telangana Planning Board Vice Chairman G. Chinnareddy.

He was speaking astatine a seminar astatine the Telangana Horticulture University successful Mulugu marking the 11th Foundation Day and besides the National Farmers’ Day.

Mr. Chinna Reddy requested the cardinal and authorities governments to supply capable subsidies to summation the country nether cultivation of fruits and vegetables successful Telangana. He said that determination is simply a request to found a accomplishment improvement centre astatine the assemblage and pull younker towards horticulture.

Considering the unsocial characteristics of Kollapur mangoes and Balanagar custard apples, helium suggested intensifying probe connected these crops to summation farmers’ income done exports. There is simply a request to instrumentality horticulture-focused policies akin to those implemented by the Maharashtra government.

Vice-Chancellor of the Horticulture University Danda Rajireddy said that determination is simply a request to summation rootlike cultivation successful the authorities to implicit 12 lakh acres. He assured that caller probe projects volition soon beryllium launched connected modern cutting-edge technologies, post-harvest technology, AI-ML, and distant sensing.

A peculiar lecture was delivered by S.D. Shikhamani, erstwhile Vice-Chancellor of YSR Horticultural University connected “Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) successful Horticulture.”