4 days ago
1
HYDERABAD
Minister for Agriculture Tummala Nageswara Rao connected Thursday called connected Union Minister of Agriculture Shivraj Singh Chouhan successful New Delhi and made respective requests connected behalf of the farming assemblage of Telangana, including inclusion of maize and jowar crops nether the terms enactment scheme, enhancement of sunflower procurement quota by the Centre, for a wide argumentation connected herbicide tolerant fabric and others.
During the gathering with the Union Minister on with Secretary (Agriculture) of Telangana K. Surendra Mohan, Mr. Nageswara Rao explained to the erstwhile astir the adverse conditions being faced by the farming assemblage of Telangana, fiscal problems owed to deficiency of remunerative terms to the nutrient successful the unfastened market, request for enhancing horticultural crops’ extent, problems successful procurement of crops, cultivation policies for the aboriginal among others.
He stated that the Telangana Government was giving apical precedence to farmers’ welfare, harvest diversification, h2o conservation and encouragement to horticultural crops. Though the State authorities was procuring immoderate crops which were not being procured nether PSS by the Centre, determination was a request for Centre’s help, helium stressed.
On the selling occupation of maize and jowar this Rabi season, Mr. Nageswara Rao stated that the 2 crops were cultivated successful implicit 20.3 lakh acres with accumulation estimated astatine implicit 47.25 lakh tonnes pursuing favourable upwind conditions and bully yield. Flooding of the marketplace with the nutrient had pushed the marketplace prices down arsenic traders were buying them astatine overmuch lesser terms compared to the minimum enactment price.
He explained that the traders were buying maize astatine ₹1,800 per quintal against the MSP fixed by the Centre astatine ₹2,400 per quintal. As portion of helping the farmers, the State Government had already opened 336 procurement centres and had purchased 11.45 lakh tonnes of maize truthful far. However, the terms of the nutrient successful the unfastened marketplace was not stabilising astir the MSP arsenic the nutrient was flooding the market. He requested the Union Minister to procure astatine slightest 14.9 lakh tonnes of maize and 2.01 lakh tonnes of jowar done Central nodal agencies.
On the procurement of sunflower, Mr. Nageswara Rao said the quota of 3,690 tonnes’ procurement fixed by the Centre was not capable arsenic the farmers were getting overmuch lesser terms than ₹7,721 per quintal of MSP successful the unfastened market. He urged the Union Minister to heighten the procurement quota to astatine slightest 15,262 tonnes.
He besides sought a wide argumentation connected the herbicide tolerant fabric varieties flooding the marketplace successful the lack of immoderate argumentation and its adverse interaction connected biodiversity. He sought enactment for micro irrigation hold to different 34,000 hectares successful 2026-27.
