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Go for veggies to reap profits
Minister for Agriculture and Horticulture Pocharam Srinivas Reddy advised the farmers to go in for sowing horticulture crops like vegetables to reap profits. Participating at a horticulture coordination meeting here on Saturday, the Minister expressed concern over the unabated suicides by the farmers whose figure was pegged at three lakh after independence as per National Crime Records Bureau.
Hyderabad: Minister for Agriculture and Horticulture Pocharam Srinivas Reddy advised the farmers to go in for sowing horticulture crops like vegetables to reap profits. Participating at a horticulture coordination meeting here on Saturday, the Minister expressed concern over the unabated suicides by the farmers whose figure was pegged at three lakh after independence as per National Crime Records Bureau.
Admitting that there were some discrepancies and lacunae with regard to the Acts and policy decisions of the governments on farmers’ welfare, Pocharam said steps would be taken to end the problems to ensure that the farmers got timely succour for better living in future.
He said the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government would make sweeping changes with regard to farmers’ welfare. Since the farmers were fed up with the normal crops resulting in recurring losses, they should focus on horticulture crops like vegetables for better benefits, the Minister said.
He cited some reasons for the farmers’ woes such as low yield, poor MSP, bore-well failure and others resulting in losses which should be plugged off seriously. Though the previous governments did not help the farmers, the TRS government was liberally giving funds through Mission Kakatiya for lakes revival.
“There is a huge demand for vegetables in the State which is able to crop below 30 per cent while there is a need for 438 crore kg of vegetables. As against 30 lakh acres of vegetable crops, the farmers are able to sow them in just nine lakh acres,” he said.
Keeping the escalating demand for the vegetables, the farmers should prefer to sow them to reap in better income rather than going in for the regular crops, the Minister said. Speaking on the occasion, Agriculture Secretary Parthasarathi said they could get better yield for a variety of paddy brought from Tamil Nadu and sown in at Dhannora village in Adilabad district.
To replicate this elsewhere, the officials should ask the Collectors to find land to encourage new seed fields to produce and supply the same to the growing needs of farmers in the State, he said.
