Agriculture and Co-operation

Websites: agri.telangana.gov.in | horticulturedept.telangana.gov.in | horticulture.tg.nic.in |
cooperation.telangana.gov.in | esahakaraseva.telangana.gov.in

Websites: agri.telangana.gov.in | horticulturedept.telangana.gov.in | horticulture.tg.nic.in | cooperation.telangana.gov.in | esahakaraseva.telangana.gov.in

The Department of Agriculture has been created mainly to provide Agricultural Extension services to farmers and to transfer the latest technical knowledge to the farming community. The objectives of the Department are to assess requirements of agriculture inputs well in advance and to regulate their production and monitor timely supply of seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides, implements, credit, etc., to farmers. The Department also performs the statutory functions under various acts and regulations (i.e., quality control) to ensure the supply of quality inputs i.e., Seeds, Fertilizers, and Pesticides to farmers, etc.

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Minister

SRI TUMMALA NAGESWARA RAO

The Hon’ble Agriculture Minister


Name	Sri Tummala Nageswara Rao
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Department HODs

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Department Profile

Vision and Mission

Vision

To enable each and every farmer achieve sustainable and economical agriculture productivity.

Mission of the Department

Attain 6% Growth Rate and Increased Returns on investment to farmers through improved Technology
Effective Extension Reach
Mechanisation, Marketing tie up, Adequate Credit, Crop Insurance

Functions of the Department

The Department of Agriculture is performing following functions in the process of sustainable agricultural development.

Services

Ensuring quality & timely input supply
Input Regulation
Soil Testing
Fertilizer Testing
Seed Testing
Pesticides Testing
Generating Land Resources Database
Facilitating Credit
Facilitating Crop Insurance
The department has enabled the delivery of some of above mentioned services like soil testing, fertilizer, seed, pesticide testing, Input regulation and farm mechanization to farmers through use of Information Technology

Capacity building of farmers

Organizing pre seasonal Training – Rythu Chaitanya Yatra
Organizing Rythu Sadassus
Regular Trainings & Demonstrations through Farmers Trainings Centres
Fertilizer Testing
Exposure visits
Pesticides Testing
Special training for Farm Women

Re-engineering of Extension Approach

Annual orientation / capacity enhancement of all the Agril. Extension Staff
Workshops on Crop Specific Strategies
Regional Conferences
Training to staff at SAMETI

Strengthening Research & Extension Linkage

DAATT Centres
KVK, ARS

Land Utilization and Agriculture Profile

The total geographical area of the state is 114.84 lakh hectares, out of the total geographical area 40.5 per cent is under net area sown, 23.9 per cent is under forests, 10.5 per cent is under current fallow lands, 7.7 per cent is under non-agricultural uses and 5.4 per cent is under barren land uncultivable land. The land utilization particulars during the year 2012-13 are given below.

S. No.	Category	Area in Lakh	% to Total Geographical Area
1	Total Geographical Area	114.84	100
2	Forest	27.43	23.89
3	Barren and un cultivable land	6.16	5.36
4	Land put to non-agril.uses	8.86	7.71
5	Cultivable Waste	1.73	1.51
6	Permanent pastures and other grazing lands	3.03	2.64
7	Land under Misc. tree crops, Groves not included in Net area sown	1.14	0.99
8	Other fallow lands	7.92	6.9
9	Current fallow lands	12.03	10.47
10	Net & Area sown	46.54	40.53

Agriculture Profile

S. No.	Category	Unit	Value
1	Total Geographical Area	Lakh	114.84
2	Gross Cropped Area	Lakh	56.9
3	Net Cropped Area	Lakh	46.54
4	Gross Irrigated Area	Lakh	25.57
5	Net Irrigated Area	Lakh	17.74
6	Average Farm Holding Size	Ha	1.12
7	Average Annual Rainfall	mm	906.8
8	Cropping Intensity	%	1.24
9	Irrigation Intensity	%	1.44

Rainfall

Agriculture in Telangana is dependent on rainfall and agricultural production depends upon the distribution of rainfall. The influence of South-West monsoon is predominant. South-West Monsoon (79%) is spread over the period from June to September, North-East Monsoon (14%) from October to December and the rest 7% rainfall is received during the winter and summer months. Telangana (10 districts) receive a normal rainfall of 906.5 mm in a year. The season wise breakup for the year 2012-13 is as follows :

S. No.	Season	Rainfall Received (mm)
	Total	906.5
1.	South-West Monsoon	715.1
2.	North-East Monsoon	129.2
3.	Winter Season	11.4
4.	Hot Weather	50.8

Irrigation

During 2012-13 the Gross Area Irrigated by different sources was 25.57 lakh ha and the net area irrigated was 17.74 lakh ha and the irrigation intensity was 1.44.

S. No	Crop	Area under the crop (lakh ha)	Area Irrigated (lakh ha)	Percentage
1	Rice	17.5	17.06	97.49
2	Maize	5.91	2.15	36.38
3	Groundnut	1.71	1.5	87.72
4	Cotton	15.81	2.3	14.55
5	Other crops	16.07	5.63	35.03

Source Wise Gross Irrigated Area Percentage 2012-13

Crop Wise Irrigated Area

The Crop wise irrigated area in Telangana for important crops for the year 2011-12 in brief is as follows:

S. No	Crop	Area under the crop (lakh ha)	Area Irrigated (lakh ha)	Percentage
1	Rice	17.5	17.06	97.49
2	Maize	5.91	2.15	36.38
3	Groundnut	1.71	1.5	87.72
4	Cotton	15.81	2.3	14.55
5	Other crops	16.07	5.63	35.03
	Total	57	28.64	50.25

Energization of Wells

Wells and tube wells irrigate a Gross Cropped Area of about 22.07 lakh ha in Telangana state and there are 17.61 lakh energized wells with a connected load of 73.75 lakh (K.W). The district wise breakup is as follows:

S. No	District	Low Tension Agriculture
		No. of Services	Connected Load (K.W)
1	Mahabubnagar	200517	902350
2	Ranga Reddy	110242	452220
3	Hyderabad	1003	490
4	Medak	199772	958730
5	Nizamabad	215094	963414
6	Adilabad	99666	393584
7	Karimnagar	310507	950771
8	Warangal	264807	956460
9	Khammam	102235	403895
10	Nalgonda	257745	1393740

Cropping Intensity & Land holding

Cropping Intensity

Cropping intensity is one of the indices for assessing the efficiency of agriculture sector. The cropping intensity i.e. the ratio of Gross Area Sown to Net Area Sown during 2011-12 is 1.16. The level of cropping intensity moves in consonance with the behaviour of the monsoon and availability of irrigation water.

Land Holdings

Agriculture production depends, to a considerable extent, upon the size of the unit of cultivation. According to the census, the average size of land holding per farmer in the state during 2010-11 is at 1.12 hectares and the same is likely to fall below due to further fragmentation of the farm holdings, since more than 70 % of rural population is dependent on Agriculture only. The total numbers of operational holdings in the State are 55.54 lakhs covering an area of 61.97 lakh hectares. The Number of operational holdings belonging to various categories and the land operated by them (2010-11) is indicated below:

S. No.	Category	Unit	Value
1.	Total Geographical Area	Lakh Ha	114.84
2.	Gross Cropped Area	Lakh Ha	56.90
3.	Net Cropped Area	Lakh Ha	46.54
4.	Gross Irrigated Area	Lakh Ha	25.57
5.	Net Irrigated Area	Lakh Ha	17.74
6.	Average Farm Holding Size	Ha	1.12
7.	Average Annual Rainfall	mm	906.80
8.	Cropping Intensity	%	1.24
9.	Irrigation Intensity	%	1.44

Cropping Pattern and Agro Climatic Zone

Cropping Pattern

Telangana grows 27 important crops in Kharif and Rabi seasons put together covering an area of about 53.51 lakh ha. The important crops grown are Rice (14.19) lakh ha, Maize (6.63) lakh ha, Pulses (6.11) lakh ha, Groundnut (1.89) lakh ha, Cotton (18.13) lakh ha, Chillies (0.83) lakh ha and Sugarcane (0.41) lakh ha. Etc. 78.76% of the area is grown in Kharif and the remaining 21.24% is cultivated in Rabi.

Agro Climatic Zones

Based on climatic parameters i.e. Rainfall, Soils and cropping pattern etc., the state (10 districts) is divided in to 4 Agro-climatic zones. The agricultural planning for each zone is supported with the research and recommendations of Regional Agricultural Research Stations of ANGRAU setup within each zone.

Classification of Agro Climatic Zones in Telangana

No.	Name of the zone	Districts	Head Quarters	Percentage	Geographical area (sq.km)	No. of mandals
1	Northern Telangana Zone	Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Adilabad	Jagtial	35.5	144	6
2	Central Telangana Zone	Warangal, Khammam, Medak	Warangal	30.6	132	7
3	Southern Telangana Zone	Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda, Rangareddy (+Hyderabad)	Palem	39.3	164	6
4	High Altitude & Tribal Areas Zone	High Altitude & Tribal Areas Of Khammam & Adilabad districts	Chintapalli	4.66	13	3
				110.06	453	22

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Department HODs

The agriculture department is headed by Commissioner & Director of Agriculture. At the state Head quarter Commissioner & Director of Agriculture is assisted by technical and non-technical staff. Technical staff consists of 2 Additional Directors of Agriculture, 3 Joint Directors of Agriculture, 5 Deputy Directors of Agriculture, 8 Assistant Directors of Agriculture, 17 Agriculture officers and 189 Non-technical staff. HoD will control & direct all the district level staff.

Organizational Setup

The organizational setup of the department can be grouped under three major sections viz., Administrative Offices, and Service Centres and Staff Structure (technical).

Administrative Offices

Following Administrative Offices are situated in various parts of the state.

Commissionerate of Agriculture: Hyderabad
Office of Joint Directors of Agriculture (9): Each Dist. Hqrs
Office of the Asst. Director of Agriculture (102): Each Agril. Divisional Hqrs

Service Centres

State Agril. Management and Extension Training Institute: Hyderabad
Office of MandalAgril. Officer (444): Each MandalH.Qrs.
Regional Soil Testing Labs (1): Rajendranagar.
Single Window Diagnostic Facility for seed (8 districts): Khammam, Nizamabad, Medak, Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda, Warangal, Karimnagar and Adilabad.
Single Window Diagnostic Facility for fertilizers (6 districts): Khammam, Nizamabad, Medak, Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda,Karimnagar and Adilabad.
Mobile Soil Testing Labs (1): Hyderabad.
Soil Testing Labs in Agril Market Committees: (28).
Pesticides Testing Labs (2): Rajendranagar, Warangal.
Bio pesticides Testing Lab: Hyderabad.
Biological Control Labs (9) Nos.: Rajendranagar (R.R. Dist), Mahabubnagar, Medak, Nizamabad, Khammam, Nalgonda, Warangal, Karimnagar and Adilabad.
Bacterial Culture Production Lab. (1): Rajendranagar.
DNA Fingerprinting and Transgenic Crops Monitoring Laboratory, SAMETI, Hyderabad

Staff Structure

The Department of Agriculture has following categories and strength of staff in Telangana

S. No.	Category	No. Of Posts
	Total	3761
1.	Commissioner and Director Of Agriculture	1
2.	Additional Directors Of Agriculture	2
3.	Joint Directors Of Agriculture	12
4.	Project Director (JDA Cadre) ATMA	9
5.	Deputy Directors Of Agriculture	33
6.	Dy. Project Director (DDA Cadre) ATMA	18
7.	Statisticians (Deputy Directors)	1
8.	Executive Engineers (Agri)	1
9.	Asst. Directors Of Agriculture	202
10.	Asst. Statisticians	8
11.	Deputy Executive Engineers (Agri)	1
12.	Chief Accounts Officer	–
13.	Accounts Officer	1
14.	Junior Accounts Officer	14
15.	Administrative Officers	11
16.	Agriculture Officers	878
17.	Agriculture Extension Officers	1112
18.	Other Staff Members	1457

HoD, COMMISSIONER & DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE, Telangana

S.No.	Post / Cadre	Sanctioned Post
	Total	224
1.	Comm. & Director Of Agriculture	0
2.	Additional Director Of Agriculture	2
3.	Joint Director Of Agriculture	3
4.	Chief Accounts Officer	0
5.	Deputy Director Of Agriculture	5
6.	Deputy Director (Statistics)	1
7.	Assistance Director (Statistics)	3
8.	Assistant Director Of Agriculture	8
9.	PA to C & DA	1
10.	Administrative Officer	1
11.	Agriculture Officer	17
12.	Superintendent	12
13.	Asst. Agril. Engineer	1
14.	Accounts Officer	1
15.	Asst. Stat. Officer (Computer)	4
16.	Draughtsman Gr-1	0
17.	Artist	1
18.	Asst. Accounts Officer	1
19.	Jr. Accts.Officer	14
20.	Jr. Asst/Jr. Asst.Security	20
21.	Jr. Steno / Jr. Steno cum Typist	3
22.	Jr. Accountants	4
23.	Attenders/ Last Grade Servants	24
24.	Binder	2
25.	Chief Machine Minder	0
26.	Cinema Operator	0
27.	Compositor	2
28.	Deputy Stat. Officer (Stat. Asst.)	3
29.	Electrician	0
30.	Executive Engineer (Agri)	1
31.	Foremen	1
32.	Godown Supervisor/ Store Keeper	2
33.	Gurkha / Watchman / Chowkidar	2
34.	Helpers	1
35.	HV Driver	1
36.	Jamedar	1
37.	Jeep Driver / LH Driver / Van Driver	5
38.	Malan / Sweepers	1
39.	Malies	0
40.	Mechanic Grade-III	0
41.	Mechanic Grade-IV	1
42.	Messengers	0
43.	Office Boy	1
44.	Record Assistant	2
45.	Roneo Operator	1
46.	Scavenger	0
47.	Senior Assistant	37
48.	Shrof/ Cashier	0
49.	Spl.Cat.Steno	0
50.	Sr.Accountants	16
51.	Sr. Steno	5
52.	Typist	5
53.	Watermen	0
54.	Workers	8