Telangana CM directs officials to ensure availability of fine rice varieties’ seeds to farmers

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Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy

Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal

Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy connected Tuesday (June 16, 2026) said that helium has directed the Agriculture section officials to guarantee that seeds of 7 varieties of good rice, for which the State Government is awarding ₹500 per quintal bonus, should beryllium kept acceptable for farmers.

“These seeds should beryllium provided astatine subsidised prices and they should beryllium made disposable astatine Rythu Vedikas crossed the State. Steps should beryllium taken to hole information of farmers preferring cultivation of good rice,” helium said, adding the Agriculture “department should person thorough knowing of the harvest yields.”

The CM said that helium wanted the officials acrophobic to leverage exertion successful agriculture and extensively usage the aviator task initiated successful Dammapeta successful Bhadradri Kothagudem district, promoting sustainable information driven farming practices successful different places.

Officials could see utilising Artificial Intelligence successful farming practices and nominate the Agriculture University arsenic nodal bureau for improvement and deployment of exertion successful agriculture, helium added.

The Agriculture department, Civil Supplies section and Agriculture University should enactment successful adjacent coordination from the sowing signifier to procurement to assistance farmers, helium said.

“Steps should beryllium initiated to bring down losses of Markfed arsenic besides for strengthening Oilfed portion a mobile exertion could beryllium developed enabling farmers to get details of each kinds of fertilisers available. Farmers booking fertilisers done the App should beryllium supplied the commodity done respective Rythu Vedikas and the further collectors should beryllium fixed the work of urea organisation successful their jurisdiction,” Mr. Reddy said.

Further, helium emphasised that the acrophobic officials should beryllium successful changeless interaction with the Central Government connected urea and fertiliser allocation to the State. “Pressure should beryllium mounted connected the Centre to proviso full fertilisers manufactured successful the Ramagundam portion to Telangana. The territory collectors should convene meetings with MPs of antithetic governmental parties and explicate them astir the concern successful the agriculture sector,” helium said.

Published - June 16, 2026 04:07 p.m. IST

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