Hyderabad: Telangana would have a separate budget for agriculture from the next year.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who held a meeting with ministers and officials on agriculture in Hyderabad on Sunday, decided to substantially enhance funds for the agriculture sector and present a separate agriculture budget, a release from his office said on Sunday evening.
Rao also asked the officials to form farmers’ associations at various levels — from villages to the state – to organise the cultivators, it said.
Farmers would be provided training of modern and scientific methods of farming so as to increase the farm output, the release added.
PTI