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Agriculture Minister Thummala Nageshwar Rao urged farmers in Telangana to shift from paddy to alternative crops like oil palm, citing better returns, government incentives and procurement support, while noting that the Centre may not procure additional rice from the State

Former Minister T Harish Rao said the Kaleshwaram project enabled oil palm cultivation in Siddipet. He highlighted the growth in acreage, infrastructure development, and the upcoming inauguration of an oil palm factory and refinery in the district

T Harish Rao noted that the palm oil crop would yield produce for up to 30 years and offer greater benefits compared to traditional crops.

Says government offering Rs 42,000 subsidy per acre cultivation for four consecutive years

The oil palm factory at Gopalgiri village was supposed to be completed in two years, but since the government is not showing much interest in taking up the project, farmers are getting unrest and majority of them are reportedly planning to cut down the area of cultivation or completely stop

Oil palm crop was cultivated in just 45,000 acres in 2014. To reach the goal by 2028, the government was giving various incentives to farmers, State Election Commissioner C Partha Sarathi said

948 farmers have already cultivated oil palm in about 3,200 acres in Warangal district.

S Niranjan Reddy said the State government would achieve the target of oil palm cultivation in one lakh acres in the State by this March

BRS said the financial assistance extended to all States under National Mission on Edible Oil-Oil Palm scheme, was just Rs 160 crore

Telangana government has set a target of bringing 20 lakh hectares under oil palm cultivation in the State in the next three years.

T Harish Rao has instructed the officials to identify the farmers who were having more than 10 acres of land to encourage them to cultivate Oil Palm cultivation.

Nizamabad collector C Narayana Reddy is motivating progressive farmers of the district to come forward to take up oil palm cultivation.

Mahabubabad: District Collector K Shashanka said they were taking all steps to encourage oil palm cultivation in the district by conducting awareness campaigns. “While the target for the year 2022-23 is 6,710 acres, oil palm was cultivated in 2,545 acres so far,” he told Telangana Today. “In the year 2020-21, 54 farmers took up cultivation […]

Harish Rao said the State government had a plan in place to encourage the farmers to take up oil palm cultivation.

Karimnagar: The Karimnagar District Cooperative Central Bank (KDCCB) has come forward to give a fillip to the state government’s proposed plans to encourage the farmers to take up crop diversification with a thrust on oil palm cultivation. Accordingly, the Karimnagar DCCB and its Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS) have decided to extend financial assistance liberally […]

Karimnagar: In order to encourage the farmers take up oil palm cultivation in the integrated Karimnagar district, the District Cooperative Central Bank (DCCB) with the support of Telangana State government has decided to make tripartite agreement with all the stakeholders such as seed or saplings suppliers, drip irrigation firms and oil companies and the farmers […]

Siddipet: Finance Minister T Harish Rao has said that the government has set a target of taking up oil palm plantation in 30 000 acres in Siddipet district this year as part of encouraging alternative cultivation in the district. He had suggested to the agriculture officials to sensitise the farmers on Oil palm cultivation. Stating […]

Hyderabad: The Telangana government is developing a special mobile app for farmers taking up oil palm cultivation in the State. The effort follows Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao setting a target of oil palm plantations in five lakh acres in the current financial year. Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar, who held a meeting with officials on […]

Siddipet: The Finance Minister T Harish Rao has called upon the farmers to take up Oil Palm cultivation since there was a shortage of Palm Oil in the country in the wake of the Ukraine- Russia war. Since Malaysia and Indonesia have also suspended the exports of Palm Oil to India, the Minister has said […]

Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said the State government has chalked out plans to promote oil palm cultivation in 20 lakh acres against the Central government’s indicated potential area of 10.90 lakh acres in the State. Under this initiative, the State government signed pacts with 11 companies to take up oil palm area expansion […]