Hyderabad:  Telangana IT & Municipal Minister KT Rama Rao said that the need of the hour was nutritional security, not the food security a concern any longer. He inaugurated Agri Hub at Agriculture University at Rajendranagar on Monday.

In his address on the occasion he said that Telangana had became granary of the nation. He explained how some Covid – 19 patients were displaying signs of malnutrition. Now, we need nutritional security.

ప్రొఫెసర్‌ జయశంకర్‌ వ్యవసాయ విశ్వవిద్యాలయం ప్రాంగణంలో నిర్మించిన అగ్రి ఇన్నొవేషన్‌ హబ్‌ను ప్రారంభిచిన మంత్రులు శ్రీ @SingireddyTRS, శ్రీ @KTRTRS, శ్రీమతి @SabithaindraTRS. pic.twitter.com/Rv0LJIMM6Y

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Enumerating the achievements of the TRS government in the last seven years in agriculture and irrigation, the Minister stressed the need for 3 Ps  production, productivity and profitability. Farmers should get profits, he asserted. He recalled the BJP Government’s slogan in 2014 that it would double the income of the farmers by 2022. In order to improve the profit position of farmers, the State government had decided to take up oil palm cultivation across 20 lakh acres, he said.

Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said Telangana was the only State in the country which was spending 60K crore on agriculture and allied sectors every year.  He called upon the farmers to raise only fine variety of paddy in Kharif, as the FCI had declared that it would not procure the coarse variety. He asked farmers to cultivate oil seeds, groundnut, mustard, safflower and sunflower.