Telangana Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy today said that the Centre needed to strengthen and support nano urea plants across the country.
He urged the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) and the officials concerned to set up a nano urea plant in Telangana as well.
"Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao is offering seamless support and enabling schemes for new businesses and industries. Telangana has good connectivity as well as various world-class facilities and infrastructure. If the IFFCO establishes a nano urea plant in the state, our government will provide all the endears support for the endeavour. We will provide land, facilities, infrastructure and the permission for the plant," the minister said.
He then appealed to the farmers to use nano urea bottles instead of the fertilisers they were using regularly, and also added, "The farmers should cultivate the crops that are in demand in the market. They should not plant the ones that have low sales so that they can avoid incurring losses. To encourage this shit towards commercial cropping, we will support groundnut cultivation in a big way."
The Telangana government has been urging the farmers in the state to take up commercial farming for some time now. Recently, Reddy himself had made a plea to the farmers to
shift to growing commercial crops like oil palm.