T’gana CM Asks Agri Employees To Work With More Coordination

Hyderabad, Oct 13: Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao said on Tuesday that the employees of Agriculture Department should work with more coordination and dedication in the wake of Telangana’s farm sector making “rapid strides”, adding that the government was taking various initiatives for farmers’ welfare. Rao, who held a meeting with various officials, said farmers in the state are getting used to the ‘Regulatory Farming Methods’ as suggested by the government and it was the responsibility of the Agriculture Department to educate farmers, from time to time, on what crops they should cultivate and how to get more yield, according to a statement.

He said awareness should be spread among the farmers that corn might not get an MSP of more than Rs 800-900 per quintal. Rao said cultivating corn in the state was “meaningless” in the wake of the Centre “dumping” lakhs of tonnes of corn through imports, reducing import duty and due to the availability of corn in other states at a very low price.