Telangana Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy today urged the farmers in Telangana to cultivate more crops of black gram and benefit giving crops.
The Minister said that the government will procure all-black gram produce from the farmers at MSP. We are ready to buy the crops by paying Rs 6300 a quintal of black gram and the farmers should prefer the same, he appealed. If the market is more the same will be offered to the farmers, he assured.
He held a meeting with officials and stakeholders here and took stock of the farming activities by the farmers. The Minister exhorted that the country face acute shortage of black gram grains. So keeping the larger demand in view, our farmers should cultivate more black gram instead of regular crops, Niranjan Reddy said.
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The Centre has assured the state government to procure the black gram produced in Telangana state, he informed. Since the center will get the stocks of black gram the farmers should prefer to cultivate the same.
He also asked the farmers to cultivate crops giving benefits in the open market like – green gram, mustard, sesame, groundnut, sun flower and others.
The Minister hoped that the farmers would surely take up new crops and avoid regular crops.
SOURCE-NSS
