Telangana is on course to strike it big in the areas of food and meat processing, dairy development, growth of inland fisheries and oil palm cultivation on the back of the State government’s impetus for supporting growth of agriculture and allied sectors, Industries and IT Minister K .T. Rama Rao said on Monday.
The State is poised for a Green (agriculture), White (milk), Blue (fisheries), Pink (meat processing) and Yellow (oil palm) revolution, the Minister said, pointing out to how it would help spur more enterprises such as food processing units, enhance exports while also aiding in the growth of the packaging sector.
Speaking after inaugurating a mould shop of plastic rigid packaging leader Alpla and a dual education centre, set up by the firm in partnership with State Department of Technical Education and CII Telangana at Pashamylaram here, Mr. Rao said the State government through irrigation projects like Kaleshwaram and support measures like Rythu Bandhu for farmers, and 24-hour power supply had brought one lakh acres under cultivation and emerged one of the leading producers of paddy.
