This story is from October 24, 2020

Agri department to get 2 new wings

Attaching great importance to the farm sector, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said the agriculture department would be strengthened by creating two more divisions. Each division will be headed by an IAS officer.
Agri department to get 2 new wings
HYDERABAD: Attaching great importance to the farm sector, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said the agriculture department would be strengthened by creating two more divisions. Each division will be headed by an IAS officer.
“We will create two new wings in the agriculture department. One wing will take care of water for irrigation, power, fertilisers, seeds and infrastructure activity.
It will coordinate with the departments concerned. The second wing will focus on marketing. It will study on which crops have demand in the country, in the world and which crop will get profits to farmers. It will prepare strategies in coordination with marketing and civil supplies departments to get better price for farmers,” the CM said at a review meeting on agriculture at Pragati Bhavan on Friday.
The CM said crop procurement centres should be set up in the villages to purchase the agriculture produce. He said 60% of population in Telangana is dependent on agriculture. “If agriculture sector is good, the state and its people will be good,” he said.
The entire map of agriculture has changed after the formation of Telangana state when compared to the situation in united AP. Telangana has become the highest paddy producing state in the country, the CM said.
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