Review Meet On Draft Agriculture Policy Held

Hyderabad, March 16 (Maxim News): A review meeting on finalization of Draft Agriculture Policy of Telangana was held on Saturday in the office of APC & Principal Secretary (Agriculture & Cooperation). Dr Keshavulu, Director, TSSOCA, Dr Jagadish, Director (Research) PJTSAU, U.N.N. Maiya, SBL General Manager, Dr Bhagwan, Director (Reserach) SKLSHU, Devi Prasad J, Director (AMRG), CGG, Dr Padmaja, and Kiran Kumar of CGG and officials of Agriculture and Horticulture departments were present.

The participants provided their inputs on various aspects of the draft policy. It was decided that the action plan should be prepared in the meeting proposed at a later date involving all the major stakeholder departments and agencies. They observed that intervention by the government through Agriculture policy was very important process in the agriculture development in the State. Intervention itself is not an objective, but is an instrument to achieve overall objectives of the State to fulfill aspirations of the people, they unanimously felt.

Telangana State has already launched several schemes for the growth of agriculture and benefit of farmers. The objective of the proposed policy was to increase profitability rather than just productivity, which would lead to improvement in farmers’ income. The Centre for Good Governance (CGG) has been assigned the task of formulating a draft Agriculture Policy of Telangana, they added. (Maxim News)