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Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy directed the officials to take immediate steps to supply irrigation water to tail-end areas in Koderu and Panagal mandals of Kollapur Assembly constituency using Panagal branch canal. He asked them to facilitate smooth flow of water by removing silt and shrubs which had come up along the canal banks […]

Hyderabad: The trial run of transactions under the loan waiver scheme into bank accounts of farmers upto Rs 50,000, was conducted successfully here on Monday. About Rs 3.27 crore were successfully deposited into the bank accounts of 1,309 farmers with loans between Rs 25,000 and Rs 25,100 towards loan waiver. In a statement, Agriculture Minister […]

Niranjan says farmer-friendly policies put an end to migration of people from rural areas to urban areas in search of livelihood

Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy appealed to Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO) to setup nano urea plant in southern Telangana. The Minister inspected the IFFCO and Nano urea manufacturing plants at Kalol in Gandhinagar district on Saturday. Apart from lands, other amenities would be extended by the State government and all support will be […]

In 2019, 491 farmers committed suicide in the State compared to 846 in 2017

Hyderabad: Oil palm currently fetches about Rs 19,000 per tonne and the productivity is about 15 to 20 tonne per acre Participating in a seminar on ‘Oil plam cultivation in Telangana’ organised by Mana TV via T-SAT, he said the demand for edible oil in India is about 22 million tonne as against it’s production […]

Government to provide Rs 26,000 per acre in first year, Rs 5,000 each in second and third years

Appealing to the people not to politicize the death of Kondal, the Minister personally handed over Rs.1 lakh cheque to his parents Venkatamma and Ramulu on Monday and also assured to allot double bedroom house for the family.

'Officials have already identified necessary lands across the State and have been instructed to allocate the land to the departments concerned to take up the construction work,' said the Agriculture Minister

Hyderabad: Three Telangana Ministers slammed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy for writing a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi complaining against Telangana for generating power from Srisailam hydel power plant. At separate media interactions, Prohibition and Excise Minister V Srinivas Goud, Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy and Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy criticised […]

Agriculture Minister stated that the BJP had done nothing for Telangana since it came to power, and instead had shelved many projects sanctioned by the previous governments

The disbursement of Rythu Bandhu amount is scheduled to conclude before June 25

Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said the State government has decided to deal with the producers and suppliers of spurious seeds in a stern manner

Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy asked the AEOs (Agricultural Extension Officers) to record authentic information with regard to crop booking between second week of June and first week of September

Though Telangana stands second in terms of cultivation area after Maharashtra, the State is largest producer of cotton in the country

At a meeting held with DCCB officials, the Ministers said employees should be trained to deliver more efficient services

The Minister said that cultivation of cotton in 70.05 lakh acres, toor dal in 20 lakh acres and paddy in 41 lakh acres was expected to be carried out this season

Organic farming is not only cheaper but also remunerative for farmers considering the demand in the market, the Minister said, adding that it would improve the health of soil as well as people

Minister reviewed the measures in place to provide quality treatment and containing the spread of the virus

The officials informed the Minister that about 4 lakh tonnes of buffer stock was available with the Telangana State Cooperative Marketing Federation Limited (TS Markfed) at present