Inauguration of AGRITECH south 2020 & AGRIVISION 2020 at PJTSAU, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad on 22-02-2020

The 2nd edition of Exhibition and Conference Agritech south 2020 & Agrivision 2020 has begins on 22.02.2020 at Professor Jyashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU), Auditorium ,Rajendranagar. Hon'ble Vice President of India, Sri M Venkaiah Naidu attended as the chief guest and inaugurated the Conference and Exhibition, later he spoke that agricultural scientist to encourage the crop diversification for ensuring of profitable agriculture. He also suggested that the farmers must be educated to divert from the growing of traditional crops like rice and wheat for gaining of more profits from the farming. Vice President said that there is a need to encourage the farmers to taken up the allied activities such as fishy culture, horticulture, prawn culture, poultry, dairy and silviculture in addition to regular farming activities forgetting more of profits from agriculture. Sri M.Venkaiah Naidu has suggested that, the sustainable agriculture is the need of the hour. He urged the agricultural universities; Krishi Vignana Kendras (KVK's) scientists should work on to develop new pest resistant and high yielding varieties which could enhance the farm income. The Agricultural scientists, policy makers, and stake holders of the agriculture sector should work hard to face the challenges in the sector. He suggested that there is a need to develop and encourage the food processing, value addition for agriculture produce in larger way he added. The Agriculture Minister of Telangana,.Sri. S. Niranjan Reddy said that, the State government has implementing several reforms for making of agriculture more profitable. Under Rythubandhu scheme about Rs 12000 crores were given as input grant to the 57 lakh farmers he said. Dr V Praveen Rao, Vice Chancellor, PJTSAU had delivered the conference theme address. He said that in a short span of time university has achieved several laurels to the university and stood 3rd place among the agricultural universities in the country. Dr Rao, said that the university is realigning its research activities with the societal needs. CII Chairman Telangana D Raju, ICRISAT DG Dr Peter Carberry, Convenor - CII Telangana agricultural panel GV Subbareddy Agritech south Chairman Anil Kumar V Epur were also present in the inaugural session. Later, Vice President inaugurated the exhibition at the university sports complex. Several farmers, university officers, large number of students, agriculture faculty and scientists were graced the program