“Regulatory Farming policy is not meant for one crop or one season. The Regulatory Farming policy is made, with a foresight amidst the background of a revolution is taking place in agriculture sector in Telangana State, keeping in view problems that may crop up in future from selling Paddy and other issues, solutions for the issues with farmers’ welfare as the focus. With the background of no power crisis and all the projects are being completed, the Telangana state will transform itself as Agriculture surplus state. This Rabi, the Food Corporation of India had 1.15 Cr tonnes of Paddy all over the country. Of this, 64 Lakh tonnes is from the Telangana State. This mean, the FCI procure 55 per cent Paddy from our State alone. The FCI Chairman himself congratulated the State for this achievement. In the United Andhra Pradesh state, the then leaders made cheap comments like if the Telangana State was formed, there would be darkness, and farmers will be a major crisis. But the Telangana state has achieved wonderful progress in the agriculture sector and the increased output is a living example to this,” the CM said.
“In the days to come, Kaleswaram, Sitarama, Palamuru Lift Irrigation projects will be completed and the Telangana State is progressing towards cultivating crops in 1.30 Crore acres. Amidst the possibility of paddy is being cultivated in leaps and bounds, the government has introduced regulatory farming policy. This policy will be the first step for the Telangana state in it’s to march forward in the farming sector,” the CM said.
“In the past, the state of Punjab achieved remarkable development in the farm sector. It became number one in the country. But due to the non-implementation of the regulatory farming, it ended up in agriculture Disaster. The state government had examined the lessons learned from Punjab’s example and prepared regulatory farming policy in the State so that such problems will not recur,” the CM said.
